The leaders didn’t waste much ti, offering a brief welco before departing.
Before leaving, Chief of Staff Zhou asked Fang Huai when he was available, as the plan had been approved and recruitnt could be arranged.
It was quite a fantastical situation for a regintal-level Chief of Staff to inquire when a deputy squadron leader with the rank of a trainee was free, but neither found it strange. Fang Huai seriously considered his schedule and set the recruitnt to take place in the ten or so days after the Grand Martial Arts Competition and before heading to the Military Academy.
The recruitnt notice could be published ahead of ti, allowing unemployed discharged youth in society to beco aware and prepare.
The Chief of Staff, upon hearing that Fang Huai was going to the Military Academy, was sowhat concerned and wanted him to personally handle the managent of the contract firefighters.
Fang Huai assured the Chief of Staff that he would be back in a month after going to the Military Academy. Only then did the Chief of Staff nod and agree to set the official employnt date a little later.
In reality, Fang Huai planned to start at the Military Academy sooner, ideally reporting in by the end of September. With a busy schedule, he intended to ask for leave to return from the Military Academy in early November.
By doing this, a month’s ti at the Military Academy seed excessively inflated.
The national holiday in October ant a seven-day break, and now the date for the award ceremony in Beijing had been set for October 8, coinciding with his planned reporting day.
Without going a bit earlier, although attending the eting in Beijing would be against his will, postponing the report date repeatedly would seem too much, as after all, it’s the Military Academy where discipline matters, not an ordinary university.
With this tiline, everything was arranged so tightly that he wondered how many classes he would be able to attend at school.
No matter, the Military Academy held little significance for him as he wasn’t a formal student without even getting an education degree. To put it bluntly, the Military Academy was rely a targeted training unit for officers-to-be. It was unrealistic to expect a rank promotion within the school. Even the Kunming Command School, a regular division-level college, didn’t have that authority. The main objective was to establish a good relationship with the school to avoid getting blocked when it ca to job ranking and awarding recomndations. Successfully completing the program was sufficient.
Firefighting, this young industry within the Republic’s troops, is quite a helpless talk. There are only three relevant schools today: the Chinese Ard Police Force Academy in Hebei Langfang (regint-level), the Public Security Fire Fighting Command School in Kunming (division-level), and the Nanjing Firefighting Sergeant School (sub-division level).
The Sergeant School is focused on training non-commissioned officers in firefighting and vehicle repairs, while the other two are considered military academies.
The highest-ranking undergraduate school in Langfang, which is also the only one open to recruiting fresh high school graduates for the society, falls under the Ard Police. Firefighting is just incorporated with a Command Departnt and a Fire Prevention Departnt.
For such a crucial industry, which in fact offers high compensation, it lacks an undergraduate school of its own. It can be said that before the policy of promoting soldiers with college degrees took effect, the educational level in the entirety of firefighting was frighteningly low.
This also partially led to the lack of firefighting research personnel, with those researching firefighting possessing advanced degrees but not being firefighters themselves. Those capable of writing related SCI (Science Citation Index) papers often haven’t set foot inside the alert line, resorting to blindly mashing up research and piecing together materials on Scientific under "Fire-Fighting and Rescue," wholly inapplicable to national conditions.
The products of such ’experts’ in firefighting often leave frontline troops amazed.
Wow, you really ca up with sothing aweso, a three-shift duty system? 24 hours on duty followed by 48 hours of rest?
Bless you.
We all agree, everyone in our squadron! We suggest expanding the firefighting forces to three tis their size!
If that’s not feasible, then in the case of an alarm, just send a cadre, a communication officer, a driver, and two combatants in one vehicle. The cadre and communication officer manage the alert, the two combatants handle the water gun, and if reinforcent is needed, the driver gets on the roof and operates the water cannon!
What if the terrain is too complex for the water cannon to reach?
No worries, just follow the world system and adopt their ’burn down’ approach. Let it burn until it collapses or is completely gone, and the fire will naturally extinguish. Our firefighters just need to evacuate the surrounding people, that’s truly saving the people from fire and water.
We’ve thought through the plan for you, expert. Please make sure to convince the Ministry on our behalf, got it?
Of course, such approaches are the real oddities, but there are smaller oddities that are also quite baffling, like including costly fire-resistant decoration materials in the standard for decor, learning from the United States by increasing fire prevention investnts, aiming for firefighting costs to reach half of fire scene losses, and protecting residents’ assets with high fire insurance — all thods that ask ’why not eat at gruel.’
The amount so of these plans would cost scares even a spendthrift like Fang Huai.
Firefighting isn’t just a natural science but also encompasses social sciences. Those unable to deeply understand the firefighting operational system will never propose effective plans.
The eight characters of "Chinese characteristics socialist system" are not empty talk; the developnt history of firefighting shows a microcosm of this. All systems have been explored, and ultimately, we have forged our unique path, unlike any other.
Fang Huai’s efforts are exactly what’s accelerating this exploratory journey of the system.
Of course, for the genuine research that Chinese firefighting lacks, he cannot change the entire picture, but can only set an example through his own efforts.
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Once the leadership left, the three coaches began to observe their physical training, ready to offer genuine guidance.
Luckily, the leaders left early.
The three coaches had been praising their 100-ter ladder climb and initial fire control drills, but their expressions changed after seeing the "Ironman Quadrathlon" martial arts competition procedure and so of its content.
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