From an ordinary soldier to a qualified flag-raiser and flag-bearer, it needs to go through a tense and arduous tempering process from physical to psychological. Soldiers of Tiananmen National Flag Guard are strictly selected from tens of thousands of recruits after three months of military training every year. After coming to the squadron, it takes four months of intensive training to become a real national flag guard. During the period, I have to go through several customs. Every time I go through a customs, I have to sweat for several months, take off several layers of skin and lose a few pounds of meat. Standing posture is the basic skill of national flag sentry. When many recruits first joined the team, they couldn't stand up for half an hour, so they fainted and fainted to the ground. To achieve the requirements of standing straight, standing steady and standing for a long time, it usually takes three to four hours to train. Soldiers put wooden "crosses" on their waists and pins on their necklines, and one stop is most of the day; Resist the strong wind, practice facing the sun without blinking, and even catch ants crawling around your face to practice endurance and perseverance. In order to cultivate a good figure, from flag bearers to flag bearers, they don't sleep with pillows, but lie flat on a hard bed. Sometimes, they will put two boards with a width of 10 cm on the inside of their legs and tie them with backpack straps to keep their waists straight and their heads straight.
Walking is the best way to show the style of the national flag guard. The flag protection team consisting of 32 people should be arranged horizontally and vertically, with the same pace, swinging arms and eyes. From Jinshui Bridge to the 138 step under the national flagpole, every step should be magnificent and powerful, and come out from the military power and national strength. In order to pass this level, officers and men tied sandbags to practice kicking during the day, measured their stride with a ruler and checked their pace with a stopwatch. Kicked hundreds or thousands of times; In the dead of night, I dragged it to the square and practiced it again and again. On windy, rainy and snowy days, practice repeatedly to ensure that the wind goes straight, the rain goes slow, the snow goes steady, and the movements are not out of shape or deformed.
Holding a gun can best reflect the majesty of the national flag guard and the dignity of the motherland. The national flag guards use chrome-plated protocol guns. In summer, their hands sweat easily, and in winter, they can't hold guns with cold hands. In order to hold the gun in a straight line, they hung bricks under the butt of the gun to practice their arm strength and put stones under their armpits to practice their positioning until their palms were swollen, their jaws were cracked and their right shoulders were purple.
Eyesight is the dual embodiment of the internal charm and external appearance of the national flag guard. As long as you see the eyes of every soldier in the national flag guard on duty, you will have a deeper understanding of the idiom "jiongjiongweishen". In order to have such a pair of eyes, officers and men honed their skills in a windy and dusty environment and remained absorbed in people's exhausted nights.
It is a patent to display the flag-raising ceremony with China characteristics. When the flag is raised on the flagpole, the flag bearer quickly throws the flag of 17 square meters into the air in a fan shape, which is called "national flag display"; When the national flag drops to the bottom of the pole, the flag bearer quickly folds the national flag into a cone, which is called "closing the flag". An exhibition and a collection, like running water, are masterpieces of strength and beauty. In order to make the action of "raising the flag" free and powerful, the flag-bearers practice their arms every day, and their arms are swollen, so they can't even pick up chopsticks when eating. In order to accurately hold the fluttering national flag with his arms, the flag-bearer piles up a pile of sand every day, inserts his palm into the sand and reciprocates countless times, often until his fingers bleed.
In the days of customs clearance, everyone had to go through hard training beyond the physiological limit, but every officer and soldier recalled the scene at that time and had to thank him. Why? Soldiers Zhai Liangyong and Wei Jia told reporters that if it weren't for the "devil training" at that time, we would now "wear no cotton in winter and no light clothes in summer" and "stand guard like a sculpture", which would be miserable, not to mention that from the day we joined the team, every move of each of us was to show the elegance of the national flag and the dignity of the motherland. What's wrong with this bitterness and tiredness?