What kind of person is Sober?

Zheng Yingqi often thinks about this question in his spare time - there is no doubt that from Sober's various actions, this man, a man who is only 28 years old this year, wants to get E together.

[He wanted to bring a group of outstanding soldiers to the battlefield and use their own excellence to offset the high combat losses rate of the cruel war.]

Zheng Yingqi understood that Sobel's idea was not just Sobel, including Winters, the 2nd Battalion commander Streyer, and even all the officers of the 2nd Battalion, who wanted to turn everyone into a group of excellent soldiers, but each person had his own different identities. In his identity, the same original intention and different means did not gain the same, and it was even very likely that the opposite was the same.

...

Thanksgiving Day is coming, Colonel Sink has given the entire regiment three days off. Everyone in the E Company has made various plans for the three-day holiday. Zheng Yingqi was even dragged by a row of comrades to formulate a vacation plan. But at the end, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion Streyer ordered that the 2nd Battalion would use the three-day holiday to conduct a memorable training.

The holiday was ruined. While others were enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday, the owner of the 2nd Battalion was taken by Strayer for a three-day field exercise.

The exercise subjects include long-distance marching, raiding enemy positions, and night anti-virus gas attack drills.

All the food in three days is the only K-class dry food that is standard for paratroopers.

Various exercises were going well, and E Company naturally beat D Company F Company, but the three-day K-level dry food actually made everyone complain. During this period, Zheng Yingqi saw with his own eyes that many people secretly threw away the distributed K-level dry food and were unwilling to eat it. Although the K-level dry food didn't taste very good, Zheng Yingqi couldn't figure it out, this thing... would actually be thrown away by someone!

He shook his head silently. If this K-class food is on the Chinese battlefield, no matter whether it is the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army or the National Army, who is willing to throw it away? Who is willing to waste it?

Of course, the people who throw away food paid the price for their hasty behavior - after persisting in training while hungry, they had to bite the bullet and eat this kind of thing.

At the end of the three-day exercise, the most memorable training began.

Under the creeping and training barbed wire, the newly killed pig's internal organs were covered with a thick layer, while the machine guns kept firing on the barbed wire - everyone asked to climb over this 20-meter-long barbed wire.

When the last test questions were revealed, Zheng Yingqi looked around and looked at everyone with a pale face, showing a very strange expression.

Very creative training method!

Strayer looked at the reactions of his three men. This unexpected reaction made him feel very interesting, and he said:

"The battlefield we are about to go to, cannons and bombs will blow people into a scene of hell in front of you. Bullets are flying over our heads, and screams will keep ringing, but we need to fight in this hell. If you can't even pass this level, then... what right do you have to wear the silver wing badge?"

Looking at the soldiers' pale faces, Strayer asked, "Which company will come first?"

Sober shouted: "Report to the sir! Let E Company come first!"

"Young men, please set an example for them!" Strayer said to everyone in E Company with satisfaction.

Humans are a very strange creature. It is obvious that all of this was arranged by Strayer, and everyone knows that what Strayer said makes sense. This is the situation on the battlefield, but Sobel, who took the initiative to ask for his order, was still hated by the soldiers again - especially Sobel said:

"Jacob, you give them a demonstration first."

"yes."

Zheng Yingqi stepped out of the line, climbed down with standard movements, and then began to crawl forward. In the horrified expression of everyone, Zheng Yingqi crawled through the 20-meter barbed wire as usual. The continuous roar of bullets, the thick internal organs and blood on the ground did not make him slow, but he was still so agile. After coming out from the other end, Zheng Yingqi bypassed the machine gunner and returned to the queue - but the people around him couldn't help but stay away from Zheng Yingqi.

"What are you waiting for? Come first from the first row!"

As Sober urged, the others in a row had to bite the bullet and drill the wire.

In the army, crawling is divided into two concepts: crawling like a baby and squirming like a snake.

Squirming like a snake is naturally the most unstandard movement, but everyone, facing the short 20-meter barbed wire, wants to squirm like a snake. The snake can squirm quickly, but people... are extremely slow.

The first thing many people do after they crawled out from under the barbed wire was vomiting. They vomited violently. In just a while, the training ground had a sour and smelly vomiting smell, but everyone seemed to be unable to smell it. They just wanted to take off their military uniforms as soon as possible and then take a shower happily.

Zheng Yingqi, who looked as normal, still stands out among them. Many people may have thought that after confirming that Jacob was indeed a wolf!

Under Sobel's rough insistence, everyone in the E Company squirmed through the hell field, including all the officers - Zheng Yingqi. If Sobel could share the hardships like this, or everyone in the E Company would change his views on him.

But from beginning to end...

Sober was always a spectator. After the training, Sober, who was clean, did not use his pickiness to restrain the entire E Company's soldiers this time, and he had a rare favor - but his reasonableness did not make the soldiers remember one thing, but the soldiers remembered one thing:

During the Thanksgiving exercise, Sober bullied them again with his tyranny!

...

By the end of November, the training of Tokoa training camp was over. After Tokoa training, everyone skillfully mastered their weapons. Under Sobel's harsh training, everyone could do any job in the platoon - at the very least, and every soldier understood the corporal and sergeant's responsibilities, and could be substituted when necessary.

From Zheng Yingqi's perspective, these soldiers are already qualified soldiers.

When leaving Tokoa, Gordon said proudly:

"I think that after Tokoa's training, no matter how hard it is, it is no longer a problem for me!"

Zheng Yingqi did not attack this comrade-in-arms who sometimes seemed gloomy - he thought to himself: That's because you have never seen a war.

Two days before leaving the Tokoa training camp, Colonel Sinke, the commander of the 506th Regiment, saw an article on Reader's Digest, which was the general idea that there was a Japanese army that set a record of 100 miles (161 kilometers) in the Malay Peninsula in 72 hours. As an American, Colonel Sinke wanted to see if his troops could challenge the Japanese army. Among the three battalion commanders, only 2 battalion commanders Streyer agreed to this task.

So, when leaving Tokoa, the 1st and 3rd Battalions took the train to Fort Benning in Atlanta, while the 2nd Battalion hiked to Fort Benning in full clothing.

According to the route selected by Streyer, the whole journey is 190 kilometers, of which 160 kilometers are country roads.

【Three days, 190 kilometers…】

Zheng Yingqi wanted to laugh, it was only 190 kilometers in three days, and the countries on these wheels were really...

They really can't understand the myth of running through four wheels with two legs!

The full-equipped march began with the full confidence of the entire battalion. During the 190-kilometer march, Zheng Yingqi also saw Sobel's unreliability - or because the US military did not pay attention to the leading role of officers and relied more on the mature non-commissioned system. In this difficult march, Sobel still had no praise. Even every time he roared and urged, he accumulated a trace of resentment and dissatisfaction.

This march was very difficult.

The muddy roads, the bone-broken cold at night, and the bone-broken wind, rain or snow that blows from time to time, make all kinds of sad jokes on the march keep going. The riflemen are better, the machine gunners, and the mortar squads are even more uncomfortable, and the heavy loads make these soldiers almost collapse. Sobel will only urge loudly, or use sarcasm and sarcasm to treat these units that delay the speed of the march.

Compared to Sobel's unreliability, Winters's performance as a platoon leader in the first platoon can be called "capturing" the morale of the army. He not only asked the soldiers in the platoon to help each other, but even took the initiative to help other soldiers bear the burden. At his request, a squad's rifle would be handed over to half of the people, and the remaining half would take turns to help the machine gun and mortar squads that were operating in difficulty. He also organized a helping team to specifically help the soldiers who were left behind and delayed the speed of the marching.

Under his leadership, the entire battalion helped each other so much that the speed of the march was greatly improved.

[In our army, this kind of mutual help is actually passed down. Under the squad leader's words and deeds, this kind of help is natural, but here, this kind of help is precious, valuable, rare...]

This march took a total of 75 hours, but in fact, the march was only 33 and a half hours, with 586 people in the battalion. On the last day, many people insisted on returning with the support of their comrades-only 12 people were unable to walk the entire journey because of illness.

Of course, when facing the reporter, Colonel Sink said: "No one fell behind, even if he fell, his face was facing forward."

Zheng Yingqi spat silently, pretending not to know that 12 people were behind!

In the entire battalion, only the 1st and 3rd platoons of E Company were left behind. As a reward, these two platoons were at the forefront when entering the city. Zheng Yingqi became the vanguard at the forefront because of his outstanding performance. Their company commander walked by the side of the team, proudly held his head upright, and even deliberately slowed down when entering the city, allowing himself to enjoy the cheers from the citizens for a while.

But no matter which soldier passed by Sober, the deep barrier could not be filled.

...

The 506th Regiment started real paratrooper skills training in Fort Benning - many people think paratrooper training is hard, but for the E Company, the training of the Paratrooper School in Fort Benning is the easiest, because they do not need to spend most of their daily physical training, but only need to conduct practical airborne combat training.

No one is the most tormenting thing than physical training. No matter which unit it is, it is so aware of this.

There was a joke during this period. The training of the Paratrooper School was graded. It started from Class A, then Class B, C, and D. However, only the 1st Battalion conducted two days of Class A training. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions skipped the A training directly - the joke was in Class 1st Battalion.

Those non-commissioned officers who came to train the 1st battalion thought that these people were like paratroopers trained before. As a result, during physical training, they found that when they were physical training, they were not even worthy of carrying shoes for others! The people in the 1st battalion even said rampantly:

At your level, go to the 2nd Battalion, which is just right for you to be instructors.

After several beatings, these non-commissioned officers naturally reported to their commanders, so they directly skipped the A-level training.

After the preliminary training, the expected D-level training begins - the D-level training is practical parachuting. Once five parachuting times are completed, they will get the parachutist's silver wing badge. The night before the parachuting, the parachutists were holding their umbrella bags over and over again, fearing that they would not pack up and throw their lives on this thing.

After seeing the tense atmosphere in the queue, Zheng Yingqi couldn't help but tell two jokes.

"It is said that the pass rate of parachutes is only 99.99%. No matter how military purchasing personnel emphasize that a parachute is needed with a 100% safe one, the manufacturer always says that 99.99% is their greatest effort. But later, after the military changed the inspection method, the pass rate of parachutes became 100%!"

“What way?”

Even Winters became interested.

"The parachutes produced are randomly selected and the quality inspectors of the parachute suppliers jump on their own. The safety rate has risen directly to 100%!"

The entire 1st row laughed, and someone couldn't wait to ask: "What about the second joke?"

"According to statistics from a certain parachute manufacturer, the parachutes they produce only have a 100% positive review, and never had a bad review! No user said there was a problem with their umbrella!"

"Is this a joke? It's clearly an advertisement for unscrupulous manufacturers." Gordon said disapprovingly.

Zheng Yingqiyu patted Gordon on the shoulder earnestly and said, "Because of the problematic umbrella, the user cannot give a bad review."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire dormitory was filled with laughter, and even Sober, who had just walked in, smiled.

Under the influence of two jokes from Zheng Yingqi, the tense atmosphere that night improved a lot.

When we first practice parachute jump, of course, there will be various nervous people, but as the number of times accumulates, many people proudly say: "Even without the parachute, we dare to jump!"

...

After obtaining the Silver Wing Badge, Colonel Sink gathered everyone and announced the order of the day - because of the excellent assessment, this regiment has become one of the best regiments in the US Army.

But training has been going on. They changed several training camps. Some camps were simple to build, but some camps were very well built, and they could even enjoy cinemas and other services. But no matter which training camp, the 506th Regiment performed the best. After many excellences, many troops finally noticed this airborne regiment that performed unprecedentedly on the training ground.

It is said that in the above, many divisions wanted to include the 506th Regiment in their combat sequence - but in the end, the 101st Airborne Division was fortunate to include the 506th Regiment in its combat sequence, and everyone in the 506th Regiment believed that it was the honor of the 101st Division to have them.

On June 10, 1943, the 506th Regiment was included in the 101st Airborne Division.
Chapter completed!