Outfield Experience- Corporal First Class Jun Wei

Before going for outfield, I thought about all the stories and experiences I had heard from my relatives and friends about how it was a waste of time and how I should try my best to chao keng my way out of it. However, I felt that since this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience a wartime simulation, I should be a real man and go through with it. In the end, it turned out to be one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life.

We had to set up tents with our buddies, dig shell scrapes under the scorching sun, and participate in fire movement drills along with various forms of physical training. Sure, it was exhausting to endure the exercises while hearing the commanders scream and swear at us non-stop, but what got me through was knowing that my buddies, my bunkmates, and the entire company were suffering alongside me.

That sense of shared hardship gave me a level of camaraderie I had never experienced before — the feeling of struggling in the mud and roughing it out together gave me the motivation to keep pushing and not give up during training. Ultimately, although we all come from different walks of life and are fundamentally different people, we shared the same spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood, which allowed us to complete the training as one.