Despite the severe cold weather outdoors on the morning of February 16, the
officers and men of a patrol vessel group under the Shenyang Military Area
Command organized an indoor confrontation exercise by using the simulated vessel
comprehensive training system.
The patrol vessel group shouldered the border patrolling and
duty-performing missions on the Heilong River. In the severe cold region, the
river will be frozen when it comes to winter. As a result, all the vessels have
to stay in port and the actual-vessel training is not possible for half a year.
Thus, the group invested more than two million yuan to build a simulated vessel
training center. The officers and men of the group can carry out simulated
full-drainage-area and all-subject tactical training in the emulated water
system.
When stepped on the "emulated driving platform" in the training center, the
reporters can feel the real navigating state of the vessel in such complicated
conditions as rainy days, foggy days and nights. According to the group leader
Liu Liansheng, since the operation of this system, the group can carry out the
simulated training for the recruits once they are assigned to the grassroots
companies every year. And with this system, the training contents that required
eight months to accomplish in the past can be finished now within four months
only, so that the recruits can participate in the patrolling and duty-performing
missions in the same year they join in the army.
By Wang Bing and Zhou Jun
(Feb 25, PLA Daily)