After the meeting ended, only the division commander Zhao Guodong, political commissar Li Aijun and Su Qiuyue were left in the conference room.

Looking at Su Qiyue's somewhat puzzled expression, Li Aijun waved his hand to explain.

"Yeah, reform is imperative, there is no doubt about it."

"As modern warfare demands on digitalization and informatization are becoming increasingly high, our concepts also need to keep up with this major trend of change."

"In the past two years, our division has carried out drastic reorganizations of the two main groups, the A regiment and the 702 regiment, and sent away many dedicated officers and soldiers."

Speaking of this, Li Aijun's face showed some sad expression.

However, his eyes quickly became firm.

"But we all know that this is a need for reform and a need for modern warfare..."

When Li Aijun said this, the division commander Zhao Guodong nodded and responded: "The political commissar is right."

"Our reforms have never been directed at individuals. Everything we do is to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops."

Listening to the two division leaders' revolving stories, Su Qiuyue guessed what they were going to say.

Sure enough, Li Aijun spoke soon.

"As the problem of leaving the grassroots soldiers is slowly solved, a new problem is also placed in front of us."

Looking at Su Qiyue's eyes, Li Aijun said word by word: "This new problem is to improve the quality of our grassroots commanders and fighters."

After pausing for a moment, Political Commissar Li continued to speak, "According to the survey conducted by Comrade Fang Yuan and Comrade Zhongkai, among the grassroots commanders and fighters at the battalion level of our division, only about 16% have bachelor's degree. Even if the requirements are relaxed to college degree, it can reach only 43%.

"The gap between such data is still very obvious from the high-quality requirements of grassroots commanders and fighters proposed by the army..."

Listening to Political Commissar Li's reasonable and well-founded words, Su Qiuyue nodded slightly.

On the other hand, Zhao Guodong also said: "With the modernization of weapons in the military, the quality requirements for grassroots commanders and fighters are getting higher and higher."

"It's hard to do better without a certain degree of education and knowledge alone with a passion."

"As for some technical positions, this is even more so."

Commander Zhao frowned and said, "For example, in the electronics camp, you cannot be competent in it without the foundation of information technology or computer-related majors."

"According to the planning of the division, the scale of the electronic battalion will be further expanded in the next one or two years. If the talent is not discovered as soon as possible, it is likely to fall into the dilemma of no one available in the future..."

After Commander Zhao finished speaking, Political Commissar Li glanced at Su Qiyue.

"In view of the serious lack of bachelor's degree in my teacher's bachelor's degree, I have discussed it with the division commander several times, and I feel that relying solely on the allocation of various military academies can no longer meet the requirements for talents in our division."

"So, our teachers have decided to start this year to carry out special recruitment of key technical personnel for ordinary universities to cope with the current shortage of talents."

Li Aijun said with confidence: "The division has reported this matter to the group army and has received a reply from the military region."

"It's June now, it's the graduation season for colleges and universities."

"The division commander and I decided that you will lead the team to go to some familiar ordinary universities to see if we can recruit some talents who are interested in serving the country."

After saying this, Li Aijun stopped talking and gave Su Qiyue a time to think.

In fact, the division commander and political commissar had just begun, and Su Qiuyue guessed what they thought.

As a special move, it is indeed a shortcut to improve the troops' modern combat capabilities and special technical level as soon as possible.

The so-called special recruitment refers to the policy of the military accepting graduates from ordinary colleges and universities.

Speaking of this policy, it is completely different from the promotion of college graduate soldiers.

The promotion of college graduates and soldiers requires college graduates to enlist in the army and serve compulsory military service.

And "special tricks" are not needed.

According to the "Decision on Establishing a System of Cultivating Military Cadres Based on General Higher Education" issued by the state and the military, special recruitment and national defense students are two existing ways to supplement grassroots officers.

To put it bluntly, this "special trick" is to directly select officers from fresh college graduates in the army.

Its main purpose is to select technical talents and special positions in the military.

After all, most military colleges and universities have limited majors and are far less rich than local universities.

Even a leader in the military like the University of Science and Technology of China is completely incomparable to a top-notch university like Tsinghua and Peking University.

The "special recruitment" also makes graduates from ordinary colleges and universities have another life choice.

After training, undergraduate, master and doctoral students from ordinary universities will serve as deputy lieutenant, chief company, and officers of major battalion (deputy battalion) respectively.

The professional and technical levels are respectively designated as professional and technical levels 13, 12 and 10.

Of course, college students are still very popular in this period of 2005.

After joining the work, your income will definitely be quite high.

The "special recruitment" in the army is not that tempting for graduates from ordinary universities, especially those from prestigious schools.

As for master's and doctoral students, this is even more true.

The C Group Army had not done any special moves before, but in the end it was unable to recruit enough places.

This time, the division put the burden of "special recruitment" on itself, rather than following the convention, it was handed over to deputy political commissar Lu Fangyuan and director of the political department Ning Zhongkai to take charge.

This situation made Su Qiuyue somewhat strange.

Li Aijun seemed to see Su Qiyue's confusion, so he smiled and started to speak.

"In July, do you have any concerns about leading a team to recruit officers in ordinary colleges and universities this time?"

Su Qiyue was stunned for a moment, then started to speak: "Political Commissar, I don't have any concerns. I just think that if I lead the team, is my qualifications too shallow?"

After hearing this, the commander Zhao Guodong immediately smiled.

"You are worried that you will be too tender and will make people feel doubtful about graduates from ordinary colleges and universities?"

Seeing that the teacher said something, Su Qiyue admitted it openly.

He nodded slightly and said, "Yes, commander. I have nothing to do, mainly because I am afraid of misleading the special recruitment of the teacher."

After Su Qiyue finished speaking, Zhao Guodong and Li Aijun looked at each other and laughed.

"Don't worry, July. The concern you mentioned was something that the teacher and I had thought of before!"

Li Aijun said calmly, "This time we asked you to take this head, we just like your youth. Invisibly, we can just give our T-T master a publicity."

"At the same time, it also changes some of the inherent views of the outside world facing the troops."

Turning his head to look at the division commander Zhao Guodong, Li Aijun said happily, "Let everyone see, our army's only talent is to take care of!"

Zhao Guodong responded with a hunch, "Yes, the lieutenant colonel who is less than 24 years old, the regiment-level battalion commander. If you put this advertisement out, it will definitely be more effective than Director Ning, who we sent!"

"Yes, July!"

Li Aijun finally said, "You don't have any concerns about this task."

"In the past week, you can study the itinerary and see which cities you want to go to."

"After the itinerary is confirmed, you will go directly to inspect and recruit people."

Zhao Guodong also nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, July."

"We will give you the full authority to this 'special recruitment' mission. Looking back, you need a few staff, and the division headquarters will arrange it for you."

The division commander and political commissar took turns to fight and did not give him a chance to speak.

Although Su Qiuyue still wanted to say something, she had to agree first.

Zhao Guodong and Li Aijun convinced the boy without much effort, and a relieved smile appeared on their faces.

"Anyway, the people I choose, our digital synthesis camp must have the right to choose first, and this trip is not a loss..."

When he said goodbye to the two leaders, Su Qiyue couldn't help but think in his heart.

...

After returning to the synthesis camp, Su Qiyue immediately came to Zhou Zhiyang's office.

Seeing him sitting on the guest sofa silently, Zhou Zhiyang was slightly stunned.

Zhou Zhiyang naturally was not qualified to attend the meeting attended by cadres at the regiment level and above in the division.

He was not very clear about the content of the conference discussion.

Seeing Su Qiyue silent at this time, Zhou Zhiyang couldn't help but ask questions.

"Battery Commander, what's going on? It's because the division held a meeting and what new requirements have been put forward for our synthetic battalion?"

The digital synthesis camp has been established less than half a year ago, and the achievements have been made are already remarkable.

Especially in an exercise with the Group Army Special Forces Brigade, it even pushed the opponent from beginning to end.

This result also caused Zhou Zhiyang, the instructor who was about to reach the age of transfer, to burst into new enthusiasm.

He was even more convinced of the battalion commander Su Qiyue from the bottom of his heart.

Now that I suddenly saw the always calm battalion commander's appearance, Zhou Zhiyang couldn't hold back his anger.

Listening to the partner's question, Su Qiyue sighed and shook her head.

"Old Zhou, don't get me wrong. The division is very supportive of our synthesis camp work. We let us go and did not make any new requirements for us."
To be continued...