Do navy recruits need to be able to swim?

Since you are in the navy, you should try to learn to swim. Swimming should be a training subject in recruit training (swimming training courses are available in general colleges and universities). You can't learn before you join the army, but you still have to learn when you train new recruits after you join the army. After the training of recruits, even if they don't touch the sea, they can at least regard swimming as a fitness program.

As a young man in a new era, it is always good to learn more common skills (usually for emergencies). As the saying goes, "multi-skills don't overwhelm people", that is, it is always good not to learn more in the navy. If you really encounter any water danger and need rescue, at least you won't be in a hurry to stand there.

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At the beginning of the formation of the Marine Brigade, officers and men lived in huts, slept in wooden beds, drank yellow mud and water, and lacked training equipment. However, they carried forward the fine tradition of hard struggle of the China army, overcame many unbearable difficulties and made great efforts to build the army. At the beginning of its establishment, the air defense missile company was a typical company in name only.

Without equipment, they made a missile model with wooden sticks and yellow mud, knocked it into missile ground equipment with iron sheets, and practiced against the model, so they were dubbed "stick company". However, in the live-fire shooting after the missile was assembled, it achieved good results in two rounds and two hits, which also set a precedent for the first missile launch of the whole army to hit the target in two rounds.

The name "Confederacy" has been used up to now, but it has been passed down from generation to generation as a spirit without any banter. At that time, the "stick company" has now developed into various types of missile battalions such as air defense and anti-tank.

The main battle equipment of the Chinese Marine Corps is mainly domestic weapons, including Type 59 tank, Type 63 amphibious tank, Type 77 amphibious armored transport vehicle, 122mm self-propelled and towed artillery, Red Arrow -8 anti-tank missile, Red Sakura -5 and Avant-garde-1 individual portable air defense missile.

With the new (ZTS63A) amphibious tanks, new amphibious armored transport vehicles, 722 II full-cushion large air-cushion landing ship and Zhi -8 heavy transport helicopter and other domestic advanced equipment joining the Marine Corps sequence one after another, it marks that the overall combat capability of the Chinese Marine Corps has leapt to a new level.

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