三人游 Talk.03 Trio Journey Talk.03 第 03 篇 Section 03
3、军训的惨痛经历 The Agony of Military Training
返回 三人游 Talk.03 Back to Trio Journey Talk.03还记得初中军训的时候，真是有点斯德哥尔摩综合症，最后教官走的时候我还哭了。高中的时候只是觉得教官蛮好，其他就没什么。大学完全是讨厌那帮教官。
I still recall middle school military training, and it felt a little like Stockholm syndrome, actually tearing up when our drill instructor departed. In high school, I merely found the instructors amicable enough, nothing more. But in university, I harbored pure, unmitigated loathing for the whole lot of them.
我们当时练到第四天下午（一共9天），要进行最后分流：大约3/10去做其他的专项，7/10去打擒敌拳。我是觉得打拳还有些意思，专项那些东西太呆了，于是就留在了打拳的队伍里。结果第五天上午一排队列，连长发现多出来了30～40个人，就让每个教官在自己的连里挑出不要的，塞进散兵连（原为生病、体弱的人开设的特殊连，后面也收留我们这些各队不要的人）。然后我居然因为所谓身高太高被塞进散兵连……
By the afternoon of Day 4 (out of a nine-day regime), a final sorting was conducted: roughly 30% were routed into other specialized drills, while 70% were assigned to enemy-capturing combat boxing. I figured boxing carried a semblance of vitality whereas the specialized drills looked terribly rigid, so I stayed put with the boxers. Come the morning of Day 5, the company commander realized during roll call that they had an excess of 30 to 40 cadets. He ordered each drill sergeant to purge the surplus from their units and dump them into the “Stragglers’ Company”—originally established for the sick and frail, but now repurposed to absorb castoffs. Incredibly, I was banished to this unit on the pretext of being “too tall”…
第五天确实很轻松，结果第六天，一直带散兵连的教官被调走了，一个看起来就吊儿郎当教官被左迁到我们散兵连。他自己也知道被调到散兵连是因为他不上心，于是让我指导散兵连，此连不参加汇演，相当于他作为教官在军训汇演时也没有成绩，所以说他在众教官中是收益最低的一位。所以他极其怨怼，利用自己手中所谓权力霍霍我们这些无辜的学生。
Day 5 was undeniably relaxing. But on Day 6, the sergeant who had been overseeing our unit was transferred, replaced by a sullen, slouching instructor demoted to our Stragglers’ Company. Fully aware that this exile resulted from his own indolence, he ordered me to lead the drills. Because our company was barred from the final parade, he would receive zero official commendation or performance merit, making him the bottom-ranked instructor among his peers. Seething with resentment, he weaponized his petty authority to torment us blameless students.
他的金句：“你们这些不用参与汇演，训练还能比那些打拳轻松？”于是就让我们在大太阳下面的硬石地做平板支撑和俯卧撑，还有金句：“你们很多人以为散兵连是可以偷懒的地方是吧，我要让你们连的比其他人更累！我内心os：硬把我抓过来的是你们，现在又说是我自己想来。然后我不但不参加汇演，导致军训不能加分了，还享受全校唯一的全天大太阳下的体能训练。
His signature line barked: “You lot don’t have to perform in the final parade, and you expect training to be easier than boxing?” With that, he forced us to hold planks and pump pushups on scorching, rocky ground under the blazing sun. Another gem followed: “Many of you think the Stragglers’ Company is a haven for slackers, eh? I’m going to make you train harder than anyone else!” Inwardly, I raged: You were the ones who forced me into this unit, and now you say that I wanted to come here myself. Denied participation in the parade, which stripped away performance bonus points, I was rewarded with the only all-day physical training at the entire university under the sweltering sun.
最后第七天晚上我实在受不了了，我直接找到了那个副连长，说我要去打拳并展示了一套拳法。副连长看我诚恳，就让我回去了。在散兵连的这两天让我对这位教官有了骨子里的敌意，可以说是刚上大学时的当头一棒。
By the evening of Day 7, pushed past my limit, I marched straight up to the deputy company commander, declaring my desire to box and demonstrating a set of boxing movements. Seeing that I was sincere, he approved my transfer back. Those two agonizing days in the Stragglers’ Company instilled in me a visceral contempt for that instructor—a brutal slap in the face at the very threshold of my university journey.
现在看，原来的女教官骗我们军训成绩与保研相关，也是很不诚恳的，不为学生着想，只为自己前途着想的人，也没比这散兵连的原教官好到哪里去。所以刚入学我就发现大学真是个草台班子，大学第一件事军训就体会得淋漓尽致，人们为了向上爬都精致利己。这与当地高考难、儒家思想深厚的情况可能也脱不了干系吧。
Reflecting on it now, our original female instructor—who falsely claimed our military training marks were tied to postgraduate recommendation quotas—was just as duplicitous. People who disregard students and obsess strictly over their personal promotions are scarcely better than that petty tyrant in the Stragglers’ Company. Right upon matriculation, I discovered that university life is largely a ramshackle circus; military training delivered that lesson in unvarnished detail, laying bare how individuals embrace refined egoism to scramble up the ladder. This reality is likely intertwined with the difficulty of the local Gaokao and the region’s strong Confucian traditions.