Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-08-07

Lessons from a Physical Fitness Retest: In Leading and Developing Soldiers, What Matters Most Is Awakening the Flame Inside a Warrior's Heart

一次体能补测的启示：带兵育人，贵在唤醒战士心里那簇火苗

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上周，中队组织体能考核，我正准备回屋整理成绩表，却被上等兵曹铭拦住。可能是因为刚完成3000米跑，曹铭满脸通红，豆大的汗珠直往下滴。他气喘吁吁地说：“我刚才岔气了，成绩肯定不好，您让我再测一次吧！” 闻言，我有些诧异，因为刚才的考核，曹铭合格了，而他从军这两年，我从没见过他与考核成绩如此较劲。曹铭没有长期服役意愿，所以过往工作训练向来表现平平：不冒头、不落后，但也没什么上进心。有战友打趣，说他是“差不多先生”。今年9月份，他即将退役，我本以为他会继续“当一天和尚撞一天钟”，没承想他此时突然积极起来。我有些好奇地询问曹铭，为何对此次考核如此重视，他回答的声音不大，但每一个字都很清晰：“我知道自己成绩一般，但也想给班里贡献一份力量，不想带着遗憾离开。”这是两年来，我头一次从曹铭嘴里听到“贡献”这两个字。前期，队内训练氛围一直不够浓厚。为了激发士气，中队决定每月组织一次通用五项课目考核，并以各班考核成绩为评选标准，为第一名颁发军事训练流动红旗。这么做的目的很简单：用集体荣誉作为牵引，让大家比起来、争起来，给训练场添点“火药味”。然而，我没想到，第一个被“点燃”的是曹铭——原来，这个在大家印象里“差不多就行”的战士，并不是对什么都不在乎，只是他的“在乎”藏得比较深。第二天的补测，曹铭比第一次快了近20秒。冲过终点线后，他弯着腰大口喘气，过了好一会儿才直起身。见我正看他，他便咧嘴笑了起来。回到办公室，我不由思考，近两年时间，中队各类比武考核其实很多，为何唯独是这次的流动红旗评比，让曹铭“燃了起来”？后来，我琢磨明白了：以前的比武考核，看的是个人排名，曹铭知道自己不是尖子，拿不了名次，荣誉跟他没关系，所以提不起劲。可这次评比把他和集体紧紧拴在了一起，让他真切地感受到：我是这个班的一员，我的成绩真的会影响别人。在他心中，这种“集体感”的分量，远比自己的个人排名要重。带兵这些年，我常常提醒自己要走进战士之中、读懂战士内心。可不得不承认，在这一点上，我做得并不够好——我看到的只是曹铭“不积极”的表象，却很少认真想过，他不积极的根子在哪？是从没被真正需要过？还是连他都没发现，原来自己这么在乎这个集体？曹铭在退役前给我上了一课：没有战士从军是为了当“差不多先生”，只是有些战士的上进心“睡”得太沉，需要一声号角才能被唤醒；有些战士的责任感藏得太深，需要一个契机才能被激发。而作为带兵人，我们只要用心发现战士心里那簇火苗，适时地添一把柴、鼓一阵风，它便能迅速蔓延，直至燎原。

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A detachment-level officer recounts how Private First Class Cao Ming, a two-year conscript previously dismissed as unmotivated, pushed for a retest on his 3,000-meter run and improved by nearly 20 seconds after the detachment introduced a squad-based monthly assessment of the five general military subjects, awarding a 流动红旗 (military training challenge pennant) to the top-ranked squad. The article is standard political-work content — a first-person NCO or junior officer reflection on grassroots soldier management (带兵人) — and its value is as a record of how the PLA frames the problem of conscript disengagement: the institutional diagnosis is that collective-honor incentives reach soldiers whom individual-ranking systems leave cold. The framing points to a recognized gap in detachment-level training motivation, but the article documents one anecdote, not a policy shift or new directive.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "一次体能补测的启示：带兵育人，贵在唤醒战士心里那簇火苗." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-08-07. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16478211.html.

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