Sea training is a catastrophe for new recruits, but for veterans like Li Zheng, the intensity can only be said to be acceptable. Veterans who were trained through the perverted stuff of Hell Week basically have no interest in physical fitness.
Starting from the second day, the basic subject training of the Marines continued, and what was going to be carried out today was swimming training.
This subject is also carried out in the Menghu Brigade. Every summer, some special units in the army will also go to the seaside for a month of sea training.
Sea training includes long-distance armed swimming, boating and boating training.
If it is an amphibious brigade, it will conduct beach landing training with the naval landing craft brigade. Units like the Menghu Brigade will increase underwater reconnaissance, demolition, explosive disposal and penetration training.
Li Zheng and Hou Jun were already officers. Although they were incorporated into the Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalion as soldiers to train with the team, they were very clear about their purpose of coming here.
Their ultimate goal is to learn underwater subjects in naval special operations units and become familiar with joint tactics and command procedures between units within the navy, so as to cultivate qualified grassroots command talents for future joint operations of various arms in the theater.
Swimming training seems a bit boring in the eyes of Li Zheng and Hou Jun. The basic routine of swimming training in the entire army is the same——
First, we sort out the landlubbers among this year’s recruits who don’t know how to swim. These people will not go into the water on the first day of swimming training. They will all line up on the beach and practice from hand movements. When the practice is up to standard, the squad leader will be satisfied. , then you can proceed to the next step.
The next step is also very simple. Each person piles a small sandbag with sand on the beach, and then lies on the small sandbag with his limbs hanging in the air to simulate breaststroke.
Military swimming is not an Olympic competition. It involves choosing a swimming style based on actual combat needs. Breaststroke is undoubtedly the most labor-saving, most concealed, and most suitable swimming style for actual combat needs.
No special force will only train unarmed swimming. Armed swimming must be learned. Of course, the distance of armed swimming is only two to three kilometers for ordinary troops, while the swimming distance of special forces is more than five kilometers, even for some elite units. It is required to reach ten kilometers.
Compared with the new recruits who piled sand on the beach, the veterans seemed much more relaxed. They went to the beach every day, swam in the sea and then helped train the new recruits.
Although the sea training sounds like three months, the swimming training cannot wait. There are other subjects such as amphibious beach landings to be practiced later. Therefore, the recruits only have less than a week to train the basic movements on the shore, and then they can do it anyway. You must get into the water and do it.
What these recruits went through, Li Zheng had experienced in the sea training of the Menghu Brigade that year.
The first day in the water is the most brutal.
Military training has strict time planning. As the saying goes, time waits for no one. Among the recruits, those with strong savvy can't swim just because they have never learned to swim before. This is the easiest type to practice.
The worst thing is the real landlubber.
It’s not that real landlubbers haven’t learned anything, they are really afraid of water. Maybe they were drowned when they were children, or they saw others drowned, so they have an inexplicable fear of water.
When encountering this type, the squad leader will resort to tactics.
After mastering the basic movements, put these landlubbers on the assault boat, then drive to the nearby sea and order the new landlubbers to enter the water.
At this time, it is often the busiest time in the sea training field, and it is also the happiest time in the sea training every year.
Because the assault boat is not far from the shore, at most ten meters away, and the water depth generally ranges from two to seven or eight meters, there are several squad leaders and veterans on the boat and a few landlubbers.
"Don't be afraid, jump down here and swim to the shore."
At this time, the monitor's face usually had a kind smile like a trafficker's.
Landlubber recruits usually have green faces, dazed heads, and heads shaking like rattles.
"Monitor, I really can't do it, I really can't do it."
At this moment, the veterans on the ship will definitely take action and teach the new recruits a lesson with contempt.
"You worthless guy, we Marines have no right to say no. Look at why other new comrades can do it, but you can't? Do you have the nerve to say it?"
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The recruit looked at the shore and then at his squad leader.
The veterans watching the excitement on the shore would boo.
"Afraid of a dick!"
"Jump! You can swim after you jump into the water!"
"You eggless guy! Don't let us underestimate you!"
The general atmosphere is heightened here, and many recruits will be upset and jump into the water regardless of the situation.
After entering the water, people will subconsciously seek to survive. In a desperate situation, the breaststroke movements that have been practiced thousands of times in the past few days will be performed unnaturally. Many people are really capable of breaking through the psychological shackles. Suddenly, it is as if they have penetrated the Ren and Du channels. After a while, he finally surfaced and swam to the shore.
At this time, the veterans on the shore would give him heroic applause and a thumbs up, and they would all come up to pat his shoulders and head and say you are doing a great job! Only if you can swim can you say you are a Marine!
Of course, there are also recruits who are extremely afraid of water. No matter how much ideological work the squad leader does to coax the crows to open their mouths and sing songs, they can't coax them into the water. No matter how despised the veterans are, who always have more fear than shame, then they have to use a trick.
The squad leader would suddenly kick the recruit in the butt and yell, "Get out of here!"
Then there was only a splash, and the recruit fell into the water before he finished shouting.
Fifty percent of those who were kicked down realized the essence of swimming in their panic and finally discovered that they could actually swim.
Half of them were really desperate. After a few mouthfuls of salty water and a few mouthfuls of salty water, the veteran who was the safety officer would jump into the water and pull him to the side of the boat. Several people scrambled to pull the guy onto the boat and let him collapse on the side of the boat.
At this time, the squad leader will start to smile like a trafficker and say: "Look, are you okay? You are not drowned, are you? Water is not that scary, especially sea water. As long as you relax your body, you can float. So you sink because you are afraid. If you are not afraid, you will not die."
As he spoke, the veteran safety officer who had not climbed onto the boat would spread his limbs across the water like a cross and said loudly, "Look at me, I can't sink even if I don't move."
At this time, the new recruit looked at the veteran in the water and couldn't help but despise himself.
The monitor would strike while the iron is hot and say, try again! Will do it again! I command you, jump!
The recruit stretched his head to look at the sea water outside. Although he could vaguely see the sand at the bottom of the water, he still couldn't muster the courage. When he wanted to turn around and beg the squad leader to wait, he was really not mentally prepared yet. He just felt I was kicked hard on the butt, and then I heard the squad leader’s voice that was so familiar that I will never forget it for the rest of my life...
"class……"
Before the next word "long" was spoken, the recruit plunged into the water with a plop again...
