Why did Jana choose to be a soldier?

Tina was admitted to Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication in 2005. In 2007, she was a junior and enlisted in the army. On June 23, 2009, her service ended. Jana, who bid farewell to the military flag, left the following words with the title added by the editor.

Two years ago, like most girls in Tsinghua, I ran between the teaching building and the library every day. I like beautiful clothes and fashionable dresses without relaxing my professional knowledge. My dream is to be a talented female reporter as beautiful and generous as Yang Lan and Chai Jing.

But the wheel of fate did not run in the predetermined orbit. One day, when I was riding my bike through the main road of the campus, I saw several eye-catching characters on the red banner-the 2007 college students' enlistment notice. At that moment, I told myself, "Jana, maybe you can try."

why

Registration, physical examination, political examination, everything is busy, I informed my relatives and friends of the news of being a soldier. As expected, my mobile phone was quickly exploded. Without exception, the first question is: "Why do you want to be a soldier?"

My friends in my hometown think I do this for money. Because I was born in the countryside, my father died eight years ago, and my mother raised our three brothers and sisters alone. I also have to take care of my grandmother who is paralyzed in bed. The economy is very tight. After joining the army, the Beijing municipal government will receive an annual subsidy of 6.5438+0 million yuan, so many people naturally infer that I have to choose to join the army because of economic pressure.

But there are some things they don't understand. Because I am the only college student admitted to Tsinghua in yongji city 13, and the chairman of an enterprise in my hometown has promised to pay my college tuition for four years, I have been doing various part-time jobs on weekends and holidays since my freshman year, with a monthly income of 1000 yuan. In addition to the necessary living expenses, it can occasionally help relieve some pressure at home.

Some people suspect that I joined the army because of my poor grades, but when I was a junior, I happened to be a study Committee member in my class and a representative of three professional courses. The most important thing is that the school has no policy that you can sign up for the army.

As soon as the news of being a soldier came out, the title of "the first female soldier in Tsinghua" was buckled on my head. Many media inside and outside the school asked for an appointment to interview, and all kinds of news on the Internet were overwhelming. Therefore, someone jokingly asked me, "You don't want to be famous, do you?" Faced with such a problem, I can only smile bitterly. What I didn't tell him was that I refused all personal interviews and simply answered a few questions from Xinhua News Agency reporters contacted by the school.

Shortly after I entered the recruits' company, there was a rumor on the Internet that "Tsinghua girls are soldiers to lose weight". Because this statement is more entertaining, it spreads the fastest. Later, I called home, and my brother said angrily, "You spent a girl's best two years as a soldier. Is it worth losing weight? " I'm really in distress situation when I hear this.

Since none of the above statements is true, people can't help asking, then why on earth did you come to be a soldier? It can't be for no reason. Honestly, there is no reason! At that time, just out of the curiosity of young people, I wanted to experience a brand-new way of life.

regret

Everyone has a soldier's dream more or less. Similarly, I don't know the military camp. My imagined military life is both hard and interesting, both tense and sacred. In summer, the sun is like fire, and we are sweating all kinds of difficult physical training. In winter, the cold wind blows hard, and we still stand proudly in the heavy snow. After the end of the three-month recruitment company, the army will consider my journalistic expertise and assign me to a propaganda department as a small reporter. In this way, you have the opportunity to go to the lonely mountain wild island and go to the high altitude in the open sea. Life must be fresh, exciting and full of fun. This is a military blueprint drawn by my classmates before I joined the army.

But soon, the dream was shattered. On the first day of enlistment, my beloved shawl long hair was cut into ear-length short hair by the monitor. The next morning, I was criticized for folding the quilt badly. The next day was spent in fear. The whole content of life is to fold the quilt, clean up, train the queue, and report everything to the monitor. Write a letter every week, make a phone call for 5 minutes and have a snack. At that time, soldiers were not allowed to laugh and laugh at ordinary times, and often heard "Are college students great?" Although I am ready to suffer physically, my psychological depression is really unexpected.

Because of his excellent grades since childhood, he has always been the darling of his family and his teacher. When I make mistakes, others are rational and emotional. I've been through these things, so it's hard to accept.

But in order not to worry my family, I adjust my mind every time I call and say something comforting, such as "Everything is fine, don't worry". I couldn't help crying as soon as I hung up the phone. The army has no sympathy for the weak. The monitor's mantra is "What's the use of crying! The most worthless thing in the army is tears! " I had to continue to endure, hiding under the covers and crying secretly at night, but I didn't dare to make a sound. At that time, my greatest wish was that time passed faster and faster and I left the army as soon as possible.

When I first walked into the barracks, I thought I had a little regret.

Xu Sanduo

After living in the recruit company for three months, I was assigned to a communication station of the East China Sea Fleet Air Force of the Navy to study telegraphy. This is far from my original intention to enter the propaganda department, so I am even more disheartened. At this time, my classmates sent me some books, one of which was Soldiers' Assault. After receiving this book and just reading the first chapter, I was deeply attracted by the character Xu Sanduo. Everything I did the next day was spiritual, just thinking about the plot in the book. Finally, I heard the whistle of turning off the lights and got into bed to read. It was already four o'clock in the morning when I finished reading the book in one breath.

In the quiet dormitory, I can hear my comrades breathing evenly and occasionally snoring, but at this time I am extremely awake and excited. Xu Sanduo, he seems to be standing right in front of me. His tenacity, his forbearance and his simplicity deeply shocked me. Thinking of my life since I joined the army, I realized for the first time that maybe the problem lies not in the environment of the army, but in my attitude. It's been three months. What have I done besides complaining and resisting? What have you gained? What did I join the army for?

Yes, since I'm here, I can't waste two years. Instead of being passive and decadent and helplessly tasting the bitterness of failure, why not try to change your attitude and actively adapt to the life of the army?

The attention of the media, the pressure brought by Tsinghua's aura, and my natural competitive spirit all prompted me to cheer up, change my mentality and rejoin the army life.

The first is to learn business. The operator's first step is positioning, often sitting for six or seven hours. At the end of every exercise, the only feeling is leg numbness, backache and backache. So some comrades can't hold on, and often put their hands on the keyboard when the monitor is not paying attention, but I have never been lazy. Later, I practiced keystroke. In order to cultivate my hand feeling, the monitor said that the keys must be heavy. Soon all my ten fingers were broken, and my keyboard was covered with blood but I was unconscious. Then I practiced five strokes of typing. In order to be familiar with the division of letters and keys, after the lights are turned off at night, I will get into bed with a flashlight and touch the keyboard. I fell asleep unconsciously holding the keyboard several times. After class, I practice five strokes of calligraphy. The monitor stipulates that one page a day is about ***80 words, and I usually open more than two pages. exploit

Anyway, business study is purely personal behavior, and I just need to bring the spirit of studying in Tsinghua here. For me, the hardest thing is life.

When I first came, even the new veterans in the village deliberately avoided me, and the soldiers in those days were unwilling to chat with me. I know everyone regards me as "different". But I can't yell at everyone, "I'm not what you think!" " I want to be good friends with everyone. If I want to change this situation, I must "strike first". "So, when cleaning, I usually take up the job of cleaning the toilet first. When I help the kitchen, I will do any work that no one wants to do.

Our company only has a water heater in the bathroom on the second floor, and everyone lives on the fourth floor. It's very cold in winter, so we should use thermos to boil hot water and take it to the fourth floor for washing. So I get up at 4: 30 every morning and make hot water for the whole company. After 5: 30, when the comrades got up one after another, they could already see more than 50 thermos bottles neatly arranged in the corridor on the fourth floor. Moreover, he was always responsive to the needs of his comrades-in-arms, and was soon named "Auntie", known as "especially hard-working".

After a long time, people got to know me better. Many people take the initiative to chat with me, saying that they used to think that college students were arrogant and inaccessible. I didn't expect that I was "as understanding as my elder sister" in life. At the same time, my advantages in business are increasingly apparent. Soon, he stood out in a centralized examination and won the first place. He is the first person to meet the requirements of new recruits. Make persistent efforts after following the class, the first batch of job numbers have been admitted, and they can be on duty independently. At the end of the year, because of outstanding performance in all aspects, he was awarded the third class merit, and was the first conscript in the history of the squadron to be awarded the third class merit.

Lead troops

It is said that only the recruits in the army are the hardest, and they will be able to "retire comfortably" in the second year. But for me, if the first year is energy storage, the second year can be regarded as real release and take-off.

In March this year, 14 new comrades were assigned to our communication station. According to the company's practice, novices should concentrate on training for two months. Because these two months are the most important period to lay the foundation and adapt to the life of the company, the leaders have always chosen five-year soldiers with rich experience and outstanding business as the squad leader of the training class. Considering my cultural level and my ability to deal with people at ordinary times, the leader decided to let me take this year's training class as the vice monitor. I was lucky to be the first recruit in the company's history to attend the training class.

In order to do a good job of mentoring, combined with my own personal experience in recruit training, I focused on the following three aspects:

First, in business study, I emphasize the correct attitude and concept more than methods and skills. It is advocated to cultivate their rigorous and serious learning attitude and active dedication to work. Only in this way can they form lasting enthusiasm and motivation, but the methods and skills need repeated training to master, so I am almost demanding of them in my work. A recruit said, "Monitor Jia was a tame cat in his life, but he became a fierce tiger at work." .

Second, in life, I advocate being tolerant and generous when getting along with others. As the saying goes, "the life of three women", a female soldier with more than 50 girls will inevitably have awkward moments in her life, but as long as she has a tolerant and generous heart, she will stand in the other side's perspective when encountering problems and tell herself to calm down for 5 minutes when she is angry, she can achieve the effect of "turning her enemies into friends". Because they have just arrived in the military camp, they are under great pressure to adapt to all aspects and learn new majors. To this end, I put forward the "good deeds decompression method", suggesting that everyone can help the soldiers of that year to do a good deed every day and get great happiness and satisfaction from it. The next day, a new comrade found me and said excitedly, "monitor, thank you!" " "Confused, I was surprised. She continued to smile and said, "monitor, I just hung all the camouflage shoes of soldiers of the same age to the bottom of the building, and now I feel very happy." "Slowly, more new comrades-in-arms expressed their pleasure after doing well to me.

Thirdly, in view of the sensitive concept of new veterans, I don't agree with complete equality, let alone absolute hierarchy, but emphasize respect on the basis of equality. New comrades respect old comrades, but this respect is by no means flattery, but respect and care.

As a monitor, I clean up with everyone, help the kitchen, fetch water, and sit around with them to tell jokes and chat during recess. To this end, some old squad leaders privately worry: "How can they be afraid of you when they lead troops like this? Can this still be managed? " I said, "I don't care about them, let alone make them afraid of me, as long as they serve me."

At the end of the two-month training course, 14 people all passed the exam, and the average speed increased by 7-8 groups compared with the same period last year. The squad leaders were also surprised: "It turns out that this can also bring good soldiers!" And it comes down to "Jana happy training art of war".

Help others.

After the training class, I went back to my desk to be on duty and started my daily commute. I found that in order to pass the time, the squad leader around me spent almost all his leisure time embroidering cross-stitch. Because of the nature of work, we all sit at work, which is good, and we also sit for a few hours after work. So many comrades-in-arms got cervical spondylosis at a young age. I think maybe we can encourage everyone to do something else.

So, I went to the reading room to borrow some famous books and inspirational books, and then told them the stories during the chat, trying to describe the content as colorful and interesting as possible. Unsurprisingly, after listening to the story, everyone scrambled to ask, "Where did you see it?" I said the title of the book. Anyone who intends to borrow books will move out of the "reading room" immediately. Since then, the unattended reading room has become "crowded".

A comrade wanted to learn computer, so I took the initiative to find her and said, "I bought a book about the use of computers, but it's boring to learn by myself." Can't you study hard together? " The other party is naturally willing. So the two of them made an appointment to go to the computer room together, from the most basic WORD, EXCEL and PPT to the relatively high-end computer configuration and modification, and we all overcame them step by step in the endless discussion. Finally, I made a lot of progress myself, gradually forming an atmosphere, and some comrades-in-arms asked me to borrow books one after another. Later, I bought some books with the pocket money I saved, and they are still in our computer room.