CCTV News:106 "missile soldiers" from the frontline of combat readiness training, national defense construction and operational support were promoted to the highest rank of soldiers with their superb professional skills. They took the "letter of appointment" from the general and put on a brand-new rank of first-class master sergeant. Sheng Dehua is one of them. He said that it is a special honor and pride to be promoted to the rank of first-class master sergeant and participate in the centralized awarding ceremony. We must take the goal of strengthening the army as the guide and continue to play our professional expertise in our posts to contribute to the upgrading of combat effectiveness.
In June 1975, Sheng Dehua was born in an ordinary peasant family in Group 3, Chengwen Village, Caoyan Town, Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province. It was Sheng Dehua’s wish to be a soldier, and it was his dream in life to go to the battlefield.
Sheng Dehua joined the army in 1993, joined the party in July 1997, put on a green military uniform, entered the military camp, came to the Gobi Desert, and became a glorious plateau rocket soldier. Sheng Dehua’s shooting range post is located on the east side of Taklimakan Desert, 50 kilometers away from Fiona Fang. The surface temperature is as high as 50 degrees Celsius in summer, and the lowest temperature is MINUS 40 degrees Celsius in winter. It is windy and dusty all the year round, and there is no trace of green.
"The environment is bitter, but it is more important to work hard without suffering." Over the years, the spirit of plateau rocket soldiers has been inspiring Sheng Dehua. He and his comrades-in-arms have not been intimidated by the difficult environment and dangerous operations, and have always been meticulous in learning majors, practicing skills and building shooting ranges.
One day in May 2004, Sheng Dehua performed a dud removal task. Under the surface temperature of more than 50 degrees in the Gobi desert, he wore a bulletproof vest weighing 12 kilograms and an airtight bulletproof helmet, and drove an explosion-proof excavator to carry out the bomb disposal operation. After three hours of suffocating excavation, he finally completed the task. The fear is that a dud almost sticks to the inner wall on the right side of the bucket. If the bucket deviates from 10 cm, it is likely to trigger detonation, resulting in car crash and death.
In order to strengthen the vigilance and flood control capability of the shooting range, in June 2010, he volunteered to the brigade leader to dig a warning flood control ditch around the shooting range. At that time, the melting water of the distant snow-capped mountains was coming. In order to catch up with the time, he got up first before dawn every day and worked against the stars and the moon at eleven or twelve in the evening. There was no place to stay, so he simply lived in the cave. One night, the quilt was blown away by the wind, and he chased it for hundreds of meters with a flashlight. During the day, when the temperature in the cockpit is as high as 40 degrees, he takes off his coat and works with bare arms. A month later, a 1.5-meter-deep, 2-meter-wide and 45-kilometer-long warning flood ditch was successfully completed. With excellent operation skills, he dug the flood control ditch as straight as a ruler in the Gobi without reference objects around. Leaders who have been to the shooting range will give a thumbs up: "There is this ‘ Great Wall ’ Guarding, the shooting range safety has nothing to say. "
In the military camp, Sheng Dehua was on duty, driver and position safety officer in a certain regiment’s security company. He also served as the monitor of the road maintenance class of the array company, and he was needed to operate eight types of large machinery such as excavators, elevators and bulldozers. Soldiers regard obeying orders as their bounden duty, and every time they change their posts, they take it easy.
With enthusiasm and persistence, Sheng Dehua went deep into 12 points, including classes and posts, preached the spirit of the 18th National Congress for more than 600 officers and men for more than 20 times, conveyed the party’s voice with the real feelings of participating in the grand event, and answered the concerns of officers and men in military language, which narrowed the distance between everyone and the CPC Central Committee and strengthened the determination and will of the officers and men to take root in the plateau desert and make contributions to the military camp.
On the one hand, it is a lonely outpost, on the other hand, it is a prosperous and wealthy hometown, on the one hand, it is a job that you love, and on the other hand, it is a loved one who has always loved and deeply felt guilty. How to choose? "What makes this profession brilliant is not the military uniform, but the belief that it is hidden in the heart. As a contemporary revolutionary soldier, we must always insist on not abandoning our yearning for ideals and not giving up our persistence in faith. " This is the answer given by Sheng Dehua. (Source: CCTV News, Zhongqing Online)