Chapter 258: Meritorious Service and Promotion! Deputy Commander of the 7th Steel Battalion!

Chapter 258: Meritorious Service and Promotion! Deputy Commander of the 7th Steel Battalion!

Chapter 258: Meritorious Service and Promotion! Deputy Commander of the Seventh Steel Battalion!
With the official document issued by the military region, the number of the pilot combined battalion was officially determined. Its full name is the 7th Assault Combined Battalion of the 702nd Regiment of the T Division of the 84th Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

It is known to the outside world as Unit 77318!

Because the pilot combined battalion performed outstandingly in the exercise and was at the forefront of modern information reform, it was of great help to the reform of the entire army.

Therefore.

In order to commend the combined battalion for its contribution to the reform, the General Political Department of the theater specially awarded the 7th Assault Combined Battalion the honorary title of "Steel Pioneer Battalion".

The honorary title is more than the first-class merit, and the pilot combined battalion has become a veritable honor battalion.

When Gao Cheng, a tough guy who sheds blood but not tears, heard the military district chief's announcement in public, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

It was not because he became the acting battalion commander of the Honor Battalion, but because the bloodline of the 7th Steel Company was fully continued.

The former 7th Steel Company has become the Special Investigation Company.

But it didn't disappear!
Instead, it started a brand new journey with the new attitude of the 7th Steel Battalion. Not only the personnel continued, but the soul and bloodline were still passed on.

"Seventh Steel Battalion, Seventh Steel Battalion..."

Gao Cheng couldn't help muttering to himself, and Chen Jun beside him also had passionate eyes, his heart surging for this new name.

From the 7th Steel Company all the way to the 7th Steel Battalion...

It is really not easy and I have paid a lot.

Fortunately, the final result is good, all the efforts are worth it, and today is the sacred moment of harvesting the fruits and witnessing the harvest.

Everyone should be happy and laugh.

Can't cry.

Even if I cry with joy!

Therefore, Chen Jun, Gao Cheng, and even Captain Wang, no matter how excited they were, suppressed their surging emotions.

After all, this is the beginning of reaping the rewards after more than half a year of hard work.

With the official name of the combined battalion being given, the next step is to reward individuals and groups who have performed outstandingly in the process of forming the combined battalion.

First, the 702nd Regiment, the superior of the combined battalion, received the military district commendation for being an “Excellent Unit in Practicing Reform.”

Next is Chen Jun, the initiator of the establishment of the combined battalion, who played a huge role and made great contributions in the construction of the combined battalion.

He received the first military district commendation in his life and was recognized as a "Model Individual for Modern Reform."

And because the 7th Steel Battalion is the first formally organized synthetic battalion in the entire army so far, it has an extremely important and far-reaching impact on the entire army.

Therefore, Chen Jun was awarded a second-class merit by the military region!
This is Chen Jun's second second-class merit. The last time was for breaking the army's five-kilometer cross-country record.

Now, at the age of only 25 and having been officially in the company for just over three years, he has already won two third-class merits and two second-class merits, as well as many collective second-class and third-class merits.

As well as more than a dozen commendations and awards from company, battalion, regiment, division and army groups.

Chen Jun's resume is quite impressive.

It'll scare you when you see it!
With the official launch of the pilot combined battalion, the next step will inevitably be wide promotion, including subsequent combined regiments and combined divisions.

The impact of these things will be greater and wider, and the greater and wider the impact, the higher the honor and rewards will be in the army.

So it is foreseeable that...

Now is just the starting stage for Chen Jun, and he is far from reaching his highlight moment.

In the near future, obtaining first-class individual merit, personal honorary titles, etc. will no longer be a dream, but a sure thing.

Relying on his own strength again, Chen Jun came back with a stack of honorary certificates.

Other cadres and soldiers such as Gao Cheng, Tuo Yonggang, Man Guangzhi, etc., who performed outstandingly in the exercise, also won the honors they deserved.

It can be said that the entire 702nd Regiment, from top to bottom, has welcomed the moment of harvesting the fruits of autumn today.

Everyone was smiling!!
The happy award ceremony ended, and the meritorious people headed by Chen Jun took their seats with honors. The next step was the final link.

The superior leaders gave instructions on the future development of the 7th Steel Battalion, moving from preliminary construction to complete combat effectiveness.

The current Seventh Steel Battalion is still in its initial stage of construction, which is equivalent to building the main body of the house and turning it into a rough-finished house that can be sold.

How to decorate this rough house into the most perfect living environment.

This is the main task to be carried out next.

The superior leaders gave several instructions, some of which were based on the organization plan submitted by Chen Jun previously, and some were decisions made after research by the military region.

The first point is expansion.

The superiors made the decision based on the performance of the 7th Steel Battalion in the exercise, Chen Jun’s personal suggestions in the plan, and the actual needs of the 702nd Regiment.

The 7th Steel Battalion is positioned as an assault combined battalion, and its main focus is high-mobility assault operations.

In order to meet the necessary requirements for assault operations, the 7th Steel Battalion will be built into a benchmark assault combined battalion for the entire theater of war, and even the entire army.

The military district decided to add three more main combat companies on the original basis.

The first step is to add a heavy armored company, which is equipped with the army's latest main battle tank, the Type 96 main battle tank that was put into service only last year.

Cooperate with the original armored company to form a double-horn main battle tank attack formation.

The second step is to add another armored infantry company.

In order to truly conform to the model of an assault combined battalion, the entire armored infantry company is equipped with infantry fighting vehicles as standard, forming nine powerful Type 86 infantry fighting vehicle groups.

In this way, they can serve as the vanguard for tank attacks when necessary, and also do the follow-up work for them.

They can also use the armored infantry company as a light tank company by taking advantage of the special advantages of the infantry fighting vehicle's main gun when the entire battalion is launching a rapid lightning assault.

Form a strong scale of three tank companies and form a special mechanized infantry-tank coordination.

Deliver a ferocious armored charge to your enemies.

This will allow the special reconnaissance company to be fully freed up, completely bid farewell to the armored infantry's combat sequence, and devote itself fully to the field of special reconnaissance operations.

This way.

When the 7th Steel Battalion is expanded into the 7th Steel Regiment in the future, the Special Reconnaissance Company will basically not need to make any major changes and will be able to smoothly transition to the Special Operations Battalion.

Both the infantry and armor have been replenished and have basically reached the peak of the reinforced battalion.

Together with the original artillery and air defense company, electronic reconnaissance company and logistics support company, as well as the battalion headquarters that gradually adapted to the combined tactics and became mature.

The current configuration of seven companies of the 7th Steel Battalion is definitely the strongest combat battalion in the entire army.

none of them!

Anyone who disagrees can come and touch me, and I guarantee that he will be silent once touched.

However, the military region, which focuses on the strongest battalion in the entire army, feels that this reinforcement is not enough, and it still lacks the most important and critical "part" -

Sky!

The fastest way to launch a surprise attack is undoubtedly to drop from the sky.

Therefore, the third company expanded by the military district is the Aviation Company capable of launching air raids, and it is equipped with six helicopters in excess of the standard.

For a general ground army combat battalion, with tanks, infantry, and artillery, there is really no need to equip it with air units.

The main reason is that it doesn't have much use even if it is equipped, and no one can cooperate with the helicopter in combat.

If we want to cooperate with the aviation company in combat, we can add a paratrooper company.

Regardless of whether the logistics support company can hold out, the organization of these nine companies is already infinitely close to a regiment, completely out of the reinforced battalion. The organization scale of the two levels is seriously conflicting, it is better to directly make it a synthetic regiment.

Therefore, the reinforced battalion can only be controlled to about seven companies.

The 7th Steel Battalion is a special existence. Due to the combination of Chen Jun's personal strength and charm, a special operations platoon was born ahead of time.

Everyone in this special operations platoon has extraordinary backgrounds, and most of them can parachute.

The rest of them are all strong and capable, with strong learning abilities. If they are given some time, they will be able to learn easily.

It's equivalent to saying.

As long as the 7th Steel Battalion is given an aviation company, paratroopers will be available at any time.

Originally, the special operations platoon had performed extremely well in assault operations in the previous exercises and confrontations, which impressed the leaders of the war zone.

If they were equipped with helicopters, one would not dare to imagine how terrifying their combat power would be.

Perhaps this is what the military district is thinking, wanting to further strengthen the special operations platoon of all officers and their combat positioning and diversity in the combined battalion.

That's why they went to the trouble of setting a precedent by adding an aviation company to the army battalion.

Can this innovative move that breaks the routine play the role imagined and make the special operations platoon more powerful in combat?

No one can give an answer now, everything has to wait until the complete combat effectiveness is formed.

By the time……

Whether it is a donkey or a horse, you will know after taking it out for a walk.

The configuration of the super reinforced battalion with eight companies is almost the same as the border defense army's regiment of about ten companies. The one who was smiling the happiest was Gao Cheng.

Looking back to that moment half a year ago, he only had the 7th Steel Company.

Only half a year had passed, but the strength of the troops under his command had increased more than tenfold, and the company he actually commanded was almost the same as that of his immediate superior, Captain Wang.

This time, he really became the boss under the team leader, and Gao Cheng was definitely the boss.

With the sudden addition of three combat companies, the logistical pressure is bound to increase significantly, and the original configuration will definitely not be able to sustain it.

Therefore, the superiors also gave instructions in the order, and they will be supplemented in the coming period of time.

The superiors did not specify where the reinforcements would be transferred from, which meant that the combined battalion just had to wait to receive them.

The army group has a large scale of tens of thousands of people, so there is no problem in transferring a few hundred people over.

The organization of the 7th Steel Battalion has been changed. In order to adapt to the new organization, some minor adjustments have been made to the personnel of the internal command organizations at all levels.

Because no suitable candidate for battalion commander was found, Gao Cheng still served as the acting battalion commander of the 7th Steel Battalion.

Is it really impossible to find it?
In fact, those who understand will understand.

Everyone understood it tacitly.

After all, it is a super deputy regimental-level reinforced battalion with eight companies. With Gao Cheng's current status, he is indeed not qualified to be the battalion commander, and being the acting battalion commander is already a stretch.

Even if I were the boss, there was no way I could let Gao Cheng jump three levels in a row.

But since such a big cake is already in hand, it is obviously not appropriate to give it to someone else. No matter how upright a father is, he will actually think about his son.

So there is only one best method left.

That is to continue to let Gao Cheng serve as the acting battalion commander, and let him continue in this position for a year, as long as he doesn't make any major mistakes.

By then, it would be a natural and logical thing to promote him to be the battalion commander.

There is no change in Gao Cheng's identity, but the fact that he can still serve as an agent after the combined battalion was officially established is enough to explain everything.

The big piece of cake of the combined battalion is basically secured.

The remaining instructor Ma Tianxiang, chief of staff Man Guangzhi, and other staff officers still hold their original positions.

There are only two positions that have changed.

The first is Chen Jun, who has the most outstanding performance and is the absolute core of the combined battalion.

Originally, his main position was the commander of the special investigation company. He also served as a training staff officer at the battalion headquarters, and also had an invisible position—

By the way, he also served as the "commander-in-chief" during combat.

Now that the latest appointment document from the military district has come down, Chen Jun has actually skipped levels like Gao Cheng, and has become the acting deputy battalion commander after Gao Cheng became the acting battalion commander.

His original position was only at the company level, but he was acting as an agent for a battalion-level position.

Looking at the entire army group.

I'm afraid it's only Chen Jun!

It was because the appointment and dismissal came too suddenly that even the person involved, Chen Jun, did not react and stood there in a daze for five seconds.

On the contrary, the atmosphere of the entire venue was suddenly raised to its peak.

Everyone was applauding, and the applause was like thunder.

Of the applause, three points were out of envy, and the remaining seven points were congratulations from the heart.

Chen Jun's outstanding performances in recent years have already conquered everyone in the group.

Everyone knew that the combined battalion was set up by Chen Jun, and no one had any objection even if he became the battalion commander, let alone he was just an acting deputy battalion commander.

Gao Cheng was the happiest person in the audience because his "deputy company commander" was back.

Captain Wang smiled.

The smile was full of relief.

The second person whose change was relatively big was Shi Jin.

When Chen Jun was writing the plan for the organization of the combined battalion, he mentioned that the combined battalion itself was too large and the battalion staff could not fully take care of it.

The life training management of the soldiers below is a very important job.

It takes a dedicated person to keep an eye on it.

This position is called Master Chief!
In the domestic combined forces of the 21st century, there are sergeants from the battalion level to the brigade level who are specifically responsible for managing the lives and training of soldiers.

It is already a very mature position and has been proven to be of great benefit.

Soldiers managing soldiers is better than officials managing soldiers.

It's really more advantageous.

Unexpectedly, the military district adopted Chen Jun’s "sergeant major system" when expanding the combined battalion this time, and took the lead in the entire army to pilot it in the 7th Steel Battalion.

They also fully respected Chen Jun's suggestion and appointed the old squad leader "Shi Jin" specifically mentioned by Chen Jun.

Therefore, Shi Jin, who could only hang around in the company, was still just a marginal character even though he was later promoted to combat staff officer by Chen Jun.

Now he has successfully become the "sergeant major" and finally a key role in the combined battalion.

He is still Gao Cheng’s most capable “soldier” back then!
Looking back, when I first heard about the military reform and downsizing two years ago, I almost had to pack up and leave the army to go home. Now I have reached a new height in my life.

The person involved, Shi Jin, was so overwhelmed with thoughts that he couldn't help but shed two lines of tears as his eyes turned red.

Life……

It's really impermanent!
(End of this chapter)