Waves surging in the Youth Track ■ Dong Xin, Fang Xia, Fu Yibo This is the story of a group of "spray white" guarding warships with their youth. We may have seen many stories of sticking on warships. However, little is known about the youth story of "lifting" warships to sail on the waves. They stuck to the front line of support in the South China Sea and watched the warships sail from the modern military port to dark blue and make a long journey to a powerful country and a strong army - this is their hot-blooded battle position and a witness of their youth. They are signal soldiers, technical monitors and storekeepers in deep mountains... They can't sail with warships, and even "can only see the shape of the sea in their dreams". However, they know that every password they pass and every part they maintain are related to the safety of long-distance warships and connected to the future battlefield. Only love can offset the long years. Their youth "has no confusion, only enterprising; no retreat, only growth." That is the courage to challenge yourself, the courage to go up against the current, and the indifference to be happy and ordinary. The highlight of their story also lies in their choices in the face of difficulties and various tests. Sometimes the choice in life is not what to do, but what not to do. In this sense, what they stick to is not only their position, but also their heart; It's their warship and their dream. —— editor What you experience before this moment is not the best moment, but the best moment "Toot -" with a whistle, the participating officers and soldiers took their places on the diving platform on one side of the swimming pool. A figure jumped lightly into the water and dived forward. With the rhythm of her body, in the splashing water, she could see her arms rowing alternately, quickly surpassing her opponent and plowing a white "track" in the lane. This is a "friendly match" in which men and women compete on the same field. The results of the competition have repeatedly refreshed everyone's attention: the champion of four swimming events, including 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters and 800 meters, was won by a female soldier girl. "Overlord flower in the army!" The female soldier praised by the leaders of the base, named Zhang Xueyao, is a first-class soldier of the communication battalion. The male soldiers were somewhat unconvinced when they were defeated by the female soldiers. On the training ground after that, the male soldiers who competed with Zhang Xueyao riveted their strength one by one, practiced hard in the rain and quenched in the hot sun. On another training ground, the "swimming pool champion" was unwilling to be outdone and launched a charge towards a new training record. Outside the training field, Guo Cheng, commander of the communication company, silently observed the girl who spared no effort in training. In his eyes, the 50m freestyle champion of the 13th National Student Games is also a "good seedling on the training ground". This scene is so familiar that the clock turns back many years ago. Next to the swimming pool, Li Jianping, Zhang Xueyao's college coach, watched the 19-year-old college student who was challenging the new project, and looked down at the stopwatch in his hand from time to time. "She has great potential to improve her performance in a short time." Li Jianping said that he was not only optimistic about Zhang Xueyao's talent, but also appreciated the girl's perseverance. Studying at Sun Yat sen University and climbing the national championship podium at the age of 19... Zhang Xueyao's life trajectory would not have intersected with the green camp. Because of her weak physique since childhood, her parents sent her to swimming training class. The couple didn't expect that their daughter would "spell" a national champion. They did not expect that Zhang Xueyao would pursue the goal of "winning the championship" to the extreme, regardless of the swimming pool track or the life track. From middle school to university, Zhang Xueyao is a proper "learning bully". In her junior year, she was selected at all levels and sent abroad for exchange and study. After studying and returning home, the girl who has won a scholarship, worked as an "internship reporter" and competed with the Olympic champion has lived up to expectations and successfully obtained the qualification of guaranteed research. But she made an "unexpected" choice - to give up her qualification for postgraduate protection and join the army. "She's really good at galloping the ocean with warships and escorting the ocean for the motherland!" In 2020, Zhang Xueyao watched the story of "the most beautiful retired soldier" Song Xi on TV. She began to describe her own blue military dream in her heart. "My parents thought I was joking when they heard that I gave up Baoyan to become a soldier..." Zhang Xueyao pursed his mouth and smiled. At that time, facing the opposition of his parents, Zhang Xueyao said sincerely and firmly: "I am 22 years old, and the border guards are 18 or 19 years old. I have been guarding the border line of the motherland. I don't want to miss such a shining youth." In order to completely dispel his parents' concerns, Zhang Xueyao wrote a letter about his ideal and persistence. "When her daughter grows up, she has her own goal in life." With the support of his parents, Zhang Xueyao got his wish, put on camouflage clothes and big red flowers on his chest, and set foot on the train to spring. At the end of the new training, Zhang Xueyao became a female telephone soldier, and the three foot computer room became her new battle position. Not being able to board the warship, her heart was somewhat lost. At the beginning of her professional study, she was absent-minded: "it's just memorizing a number. What's the difficulty?" Zhang Xueyao had a "bad start" when he was on duty independently for the first time. When the phone rang and connected, her brain suddenly "cut off" "No matter how simple the work is, it also has a complex side." With the help of monitor Liao Qing, after turning off the lights every night, Zhang Xueyao would memorize "number cards" in the study room. For half a year, Zhang Xueyao integrated the "gold medal technology" of telephone service specialty and was selected to participate in a support task. In those days, she often patrolled the line with the team. The mountain road is steep with lush vegetation. When walking on the road, you accidentally step empty and slip. The most difficult thing is to connect the line. The optical cable is very thin. You need to cut the wire with pliers, peel off the wire end, and then put it into the optical cable connection box to melt the fiber. Standing in the tall grass, she simply took off her gloves. Her hand was cut and bleeding, and she gritted her teeth and insisted. "It's like climbing a mountain. The most wonderful thing is not the moment when you stand at the top, but what you've experienced before." Zhang Xueyao especially liked this sentence, especially after becoming a signal soldier. Today, Zhang Xueyao is a "gold medal messenger". In her opinion, paying hard work and sweat is also a process of abundant life. Only by daring to bear hardships can we weigh the weight of youth. Everyone will encounter ability difficulties. We need to learn to break through Deep in the mountains, a motorcade drove out of the cave, drove along the winding mountain road and disappeared into the mountains. The sergeant will stand at the gate of the third battalion to send and receive ammunition. He will wait for the third sergeant to finish the task. A task is a test. Whenever he looked at his well tested equipment sent out from the cave, the ammunition handler in the warehouse felt a sense of achievement. The tension and fatigue in the task dissipated at this moment. In the eyes of comrades in arms, wanjiahe is a "life winner" who has successfully realized the transformation. When he joined the army, he had a technical secondary school degree. With his efforts to obtain a bachelor's degree, he mastered professional skills such as chemical inspection, senior electrician and ammunition detection, and became the technical backbone of the army. After climbing "mountains", wanjiahe reviewed the process of climbing. He felt that it was precisely the "non ideal" and "dissatisfaction" in his life, which gave him the motivation to struggle and achieved the hard work and transcendence after lack of perceptual ability again and again. "Know your shortcomings and then be brave." He often told the recruits around him that everyone will encounter ability difficulties, and we need to learn to break through. At the beginning of the war, wanjiahe was specialized in warehouse chemists. During the first "acid-base titration" test, he took the look of the monitor, successively picked up several syringes containing different sample solutions, and injected them into the reaction dish without thinking. "If the injection speed is not well controlled, how can the experimental data be accurate?" The monitor's words pierced his heart like a needle. "There is no necessary connection between education and ability", "diligence and hard work are the touchstone of ability"... When encountering difficulties for the first time, wanjiahe did not shrink back, but chose to advance in the face of difficulties and improve himself. "He is extremely involved in everything." Yan Jincheng, who was the director of the warehouse and laboratory at that time, remembers that one day, he often saw the lights of the laboratory on all night. "When I came closer, it turned out that Xiao Wan was working overtime to 'store energy and charge'." Holding books to ask questions during the day and consolidating practical operation at night, wanjiahe's technical ability has improved rapidly. With the breakthrough of professional difficulties one after another, wanjiahe summarized a set of growth theory of "going against the current": on the growth road, only by constantly forcing yourself can we produce greater innovation at a "point". This theory has also enabled him to achieve more transformation in new fields again and again. In the annual practical assessment, he was skilled in operation and obtained detailed and accurate test data, which stood out among the contestants. The on-site judges unanimously gave "excellent +" evaluation. "After overtaking at the corner, we should also realize the ability of 'leapfrog'," we can't be dazzled by victory "... Wanjiahe doesn't stop, but moves quickly to the next journey. In 2007, he successfully entered the sergeant school. Enter the campus and get in touch with all kinds of equipment. In addition to class training, wanjiahe, who loves to study and work hard, gives all his spare time to the laboratory. "Removing parts is the best way to verify what you have learned!" Under the guidance of the teacher, he repeatedly disassembled and installed multiple equipment. During a certain ammunition decomposition operation, he keenly noticed an unstable data curve. The elder martial brother who operated together said, "maybe the machine is aging. Don't worry too much." "Such a big deviation will never be the problem of the machine." After repeated approval, Wan Jiahe frowned. That night, Wan Jiahe and his senior brother asked the teacher for help. The master and apprentice checked the calculation in the laboratory for several days, and the table was filled with calculation paper... They found that factors such as "sample injection flow rate and sample atomization time" would cause data instability. Two months later, their research results and papers were published in military core journals. "To practice excellent skills, you should always put a question mark in your heart." A black book, recording thousands of families and small tricks to solve "difficult and miscellaneous diseases" of all kinds of equipment. Last year, due to the need of work, wanjiahe transferred his post again to become an "ammunition handler", and the army station was also adjusted from the seaside to the mountains. "New posts, new challenges; small posts, big responsibilities." In depth cavern operation, wanjiahe started from "zero" again. Choose to "zero" yourself again. Meeting him will be another transformation and breakthrough. Here are my sincere comrades in arms and the stage of my life. Here, I can realize the value of youth Mountains, stars, breeze - these key words once ran through Qiu Rui's youth. As a navy, he didn't even see the sea. He guarded the warehouse in the mountains for 16 years. 16 years ago, the warehouse just started construction. As the first batch of builders, Qiu Rui was transferred here. "Backwardness" is Qiu Rui's first impression here. At that time, the resident was a well-known poor county with lagging economic development. The warehouse is located in the mountains. Looking around, there are wild thorns and disorderly old trees everywhere, and there are no residents within a radius of dozens of miles. There is basically no way to the top of the mountain. As soon as it rained, the rain gathered dead branches and rotten leaves into a stream and rushed down the mountain