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RedMercury
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Re: Chinese military photos
Not really ROTC, just some discipline training for first year college students. They don't have enough time to do much more than march in formation and certainly don't learn enough to be a useful soldier. The highlight comes down to getting to fire a few shots from a rifle. My wife said it was just a hot, annoying waste of time.
Not really ROTC, just some discipline training for first year college students. They don't have enough time to do much more than march in formation and certainly don't learn enough to be a useful soldier. The highlight comes down to getting to fire a few shots from a rifle. My wife said it was just a hot, annoying waste of time.
ABC78
Junior Member
Re: Chinese military photos
Probabaly.
The training is probably a waste of time for those not interested with the military. But the PLA has been trying for the past couple of years to recruit more college educated personel.
Those anyone know if these college training units are mix with those enlisting? Or if the college units train next to units with enlisted personel?
In a couple of the video links I posted experts have observed the Party and the PLA after Tiannamen had created a program to create a better understanding and build better relations with the people.
Probabaly.
The training is probably a waste of time for those not interested with the military. But the PLA has been trying for the past couple of years to recruit more college educated personel.
Those anyone know if these college training units are mix with those enlisting? Or if the college units train next to units with enlisted personel?
In a couple of the video links I posted experts have observed the Party and the PLA after Tiannamen had created a program to create a better understanding and build better relations with the people.
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Re: Chinese military photos
:china: Thanks for posting those Photos! Excellent selection. However next time use a photo hosting site such as tinypic or imageshack to host your photos.
To do this you need to download the photos to your computer. Next upload them using the photo hosting site. I'm sure you can figure it out.
Please read this post about "hotlinking".
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/announcements/do-not-hot-link-your-photos-4449.html
Hotlinking from Chinese websites is particularly unsafe as many Chinese websites have aggressive spy ware and worms attached.
五星红旗, I moved your drawings of the J14b to the PS and artist renditions thread. Whereas there is no proof of such an aircraft exist. Please post only real PLA gear/personnel in this thread. Thank you.
A link to the PS and artist renditions thread;
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/general-pictures/ps-artist-renditions-4494.html
:china: Thanks for posting those Photos! Excellent selection. However next time use a photo hosting site such as tinypic or imageshack to host your photos.
To do this you need to download the photos to your computer. Next upload them using the photo hosting site. I'm sure you can figure it out.
Please read this post about "hotlinking".
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/announcements/do-not-hot-link-your-photos-4449.html
Hotlinking from Chinese websites is particularly unsafe as many Chinese websites have aggressive spy ware and worms attached.
五星红旗, I moved your drawings of the J14b to the PS and artist renditions thread. Whereas there is no proof of such an aircraft exist. Please post only real PLA gear/personnel in this thread. Thank you.
A link to the PS and artist renditions thread;
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/general-pictures/ps-artist-renditions-4494.html
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vesicles
Colonel
Re: Chinese military photos
I agree with popeye on this one. Apparently, many people in China believe that kids nowadays are seriously spoiled and needs some discipline. According to my wife who has done this, all four-year college first years have to do it. Mostly, they do this in the Summer before the school starts. It usually takes about one to two months. Some college send their students to army camps while others invite training officers to the college campus (wife's college did this). I think I also mentioned it in oue of my early posts that at the end, they got to shoot AKs, 5 shots and all. and to the students, the most important thing is actually the photo session after that. I mean, who doesn't want to take pictures with you holding a big old gun? My wife has one and she shows it off to everyone.
Not only colleges, some high schools actually do it too. I left China in my freshman year in high school. In the summer before the start of school, we were sent to a military academy in shijiazhuang (I think it was called the 6th air force academy). We stayed there for about a month and got basic training like marching, marching and oh yeah, marching... And the bad part is we didn't even get to shoot guns :nono: since they thought we were too young for that. It was pretty boring, getting up at 6 am, jogging, breakfast, marching, lunch, more marching, dinner...
The only thing was we were in the field at the same time with some security force also getting training. And we actually saw a kid not too much older than us got whipped and kicked by one of the officers for lackluster performance. I still remember that officer had a bald head and a very vicious look. We started yelling at him and he stopped. Our captain (the officer who led the training) told us that it's about time someone stood up to that bald guy who was notorious for beating people.
The good part of it was that we got to see all the cool planes, mostly J-6 and J-7, I think. We also made friends with the captains who trained us. One of them actually came to visit us at our high school when he came to Beijing on a business trip.
I asked this question to generate a little discussion
I've read similar statements several times. Could the true reason for this "training" is to interject some discipline in these young peoples lives?
I agree with popeye on this one. Apparently, many people in China believe that kids nowadays are seriously spoiled and needs some discipline. According to my wife who has done this, all four-year college first years have to do it. Mostly, they do this in the Summer before the school starts. It usually takes about one to two months. Some college send their students to army camps while others invite training officers to the college campus (wife's college did this). I think I also mentioned it in oue of my early posts that at the end, they got to shoot AKs, 5 shots and all. and to the students, the most important thing is actually the photo session after that. I mean, who doesn't want to take pictures with you holding a big old gun? My wife has one and she shows it off to everyone.
Not only colleges, some high schools actually do it too. I left China in my freshman year in high school. In the summer before the start of school, we were sent to a military academy in shijiazhuang (I think it was called the 6th air force academy). We stayed there for about a month and got basic training like marching, marching and oh yeah, marching... And the bad part is we didn't even get to shoot guns :nono: since they thought we were too young for that. It was pretty boring, getting up at 6 am, jogging, breakfast, marching, lunch, more marching, dinner...
The only thing was we were in the field at the same time with some security force also getting training. And we actually saw a kid not too much older than us got whipped and kicked by one of the officers for lackluster performance. I still remember that officer had a bald head and a very vicious look. We started yelling at him and he stopped. Our captain (the officer who led the training) told us that it's about time someone stood up to that bald guy who was notorious for beating people.
The good part of it was that we got to see all the cool planes, mostly J-6 and J-7, I think. We also made friends with the captains who trained us. One of them actually came to visit us at our high school when he came to Beijing on a business trip.
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vesicles
Colonel
Re: Chinese military photos
It doesn't say anything about that fans, only training was tough. I think the fans are weights and those soldiers might be paratroopers who will have to use this type of fans.
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Another translation please! What is up with the guys with the fans on their backs???
It doesn't say anything about that fans, only training was tough. I think the fans are weights and those soldiers might be paratroopers who will have to use this type of fans.
RedMercury
Junior Member
Re: Chinese military photos
Powered parachutes. SD used to have a page on them, dunno if it is still there now.
Powered parachutes. SD used to have a page on them, dunno if it is still there now.
