The skydiving had actually been expected for a long time, and Li Zheng was not surprised.
But I still feel a little excited when I really want to learn.
Li Zheng has never skydived, he has only seen others do it on TV.
Looking down from an airplane thousands of meters above the ground, the houses on the ground are like small building blocks. The land is divided into pieces by vegetation of different colors, and the entire vision becomes flat.
The paratroopers, carrying parachute bags on their backs, jumped down from the open cabin door, and parachute flowers bloomed in the sky.
In the eyes of many people, this is a rather exciting and slightly romantic thing.
But in Li Zheng's heart, there is another deeper meaning.
During the earthquake of the century, the first team to land in Li Zheng's hometown was a 15-man elite unit belonging to the Airborne Special Forces Brigade.
It was not a simple airborne landing, but an extremely dangerous "blind jump".
Due to the earthquake, the connection between the disaster area and the outside world was completely interrupted. All land roads leading to the disaster area suffered extensive landslides and damage. Vehicles were unable to enter. Communication facilities, optical cables, etc. were all damaged, making it impossible for outside rescue forces to communicate with the disaster area. Get in touch with anything.
What is the most important thing about disaster relief?
Is it advanced equipment?
Or powerful material reinforcements?
Yes, these are.
But for people in disaster areas, the most important thing is hope.
Hope of living.
When the sky and the earth fail to respond, people will lose the courage to live.
what to do?
At that time, the army came up with two plans. One was to send elite ground teams carrying satellite phones, radios and Beidou systems to penetrate through mountain roads and forcibly enter the disaster area.
The second step is to send paratroopers directly to the disaster area.
Of the two options, the one of dispatching an airborne team is actually the fastest, but it is also very difficult and dangerous.
The altitude at that time was 5,000 meters. Looking down from the transport plane, you could not see the houses on the ground at all. The air flow in the air was chaotic and the wind was extremely strong, making it impossible to parachute.
You must know that three thousand meters is the limit for skydiving. If the human body skydives at an altitude of more than three thousand meters, life is more dangerous.
Skydiving at an altitude of 5,000 meters is considered high-altitude skydiving, and you need to start wearing individual protective equipment such as oxygen respirators.
What's even worse is that there are no guidance signs on the ground, and there is no control guidance. The ground where you land is a complex ruin, with broken wires, and dense jungles and mountains. It is possible that cross winds and air currents may cause the parachute to roll up and fall, or it may fall down. It will fall into a river or hit a cliff. Even if it falls on the ground, as long as the ground is rocks or woods, it may cause fractures or be directly penetrated by branches and cause death.
Therefore, in this kind of weather conditions and terrain, blind jumping requires firstly technical skills and secondly desperate efforts.
As a result, the airborne troops immediately wrote a petition for war.
One of the letters of invitation contained this sentence - I am willing to give everything I have to save the lives of people in the disaster area and realize the value of our soldiers.
What is the value of a soldier?
Of course it is "serving the people".
So what is "serving the people"?
This is not just a slogan, but a concept that needs to be proven with action.
15 parachute elites used their lives to interpret what it means to truly "serve the people."
This incident was very shocking to Li Zheng.
When he was in the army, he really wanted to go to the airborne troops, but the university he attended did not recruit airborne troops, so he had to go to the army.
Unexpectedly, by chance, it was actually adapted, turned into a special operations brigade, and became a commando again. This time, I actually went to learn to skydive...
This kind of coincidence could not help but make Li Zheng feel a sense of destiny that had its own destiny. He even wondered, could it be that he really had an inseparable bond with this green uniform?
But at the same time, he felt a little ashamed for no reason.
To this day, when Tong Zhi asked him if he would like to stay in the army for a long time, he expressed his refusal with silence.
He feels that he is a giant in ideals and a dwarf in action.
I went to province x by truck.
Along the way, in sharp contrast to Li Zheng who was deep in thought and silent, was Fatty Wei.
After getting in the car, he kept bragging to his comrades in the car about his impressive parachuting history.
It is said that in Dubai, Southeast Asia, and Australia, they all skydive.
When it comes to the wonderful parts, he dances with joy and looks delighted.
In the end, Tong Zhi, who was sitting in the car, told him to shut up.
"How many seconds after leaving the cabin if the parachute is not deployed, do you need to pull the backup parachute?"
"How much impact can one leg bear when it hits the ground? How many kilograms of impact can two legs bear?"
"How many seconds does it take to leave the aircraft at 800 meters and fall to the ground at a free fall speed?"
"Has the parachute bag been folded? How many centimeters is the length of the parachute cord? The error cannot exceed a few centimeters? How many centimeters can the remaining parachute cord not exceed? And the error cannot exceed a few centimeters?"
Each question made Fatty Wei blush.
In the end, he had to admit the fact that he was just parachuting with the instructor on him, and he never even pulled the parachute rope...
Tong Zhi laughed when he heard this: "A skydiver has never folded a parachute bag, but how dare he say that he is really skydiving?"
Fatty Wei stopped.
Everyone turned to Tong Zhi and asked the platoon leader what it was like to skydive and when they could skydive.
At first, Tong Zhi was very patient in answering each question. But when he got tired of being asked questions, he would scold her.
"Fuck you! You bunch of new recruits who have never even held a parachute, why are you asking so many questions? If you don't cry and shout and hold on to the cabin door and refuse to jump when you jump into the sky, you are already a man. Do you think you are a man? No matter how clear you ask, you won’t wet your pants in heaven?”
At this time, everyone stopped.
After driving on the highway for a day and a night, at noon, the team finally arrived at the large parachute training base in X Province.
The reason why I say large is because as soon as I arrived nearby, the soldiers in the carriage started to be lively again.
"Look over there, what a plane!"
"Look, is that skydiving?"
"Holy shit! It's really skydiving!"
A group of new recruits swarmed to the back of the car with great curiosity. They all lay on the tailgate and stretched their heads to look at the sky outside.
Sure enough, an unknown model of aircraft was flying in the sky. It didn't seem to be very high, and its huge belly was glowing with white silver light.
In the sky not far away, many white umbrella flowers bloomed and floated in the air.
Tong Zhi glanced at the plane and said calmly: "It's Yun-8c. This is for novice training. It only flew 800 meters. When you really get used to the parachute, let's go to the plateau area to jump 8,000 meters." .”
"8000 meters?!"
"Wow! It's exciting just thinking about it."
At that time, the carriage was filled with such "exciting" sounds.
But Tong Zhi kept laughing, and his smile was meaningful.
Usually the "exciting" things in Special Forces must be very "exciting".
The new recruits will soon feel it.
