Moving the Classroom to the Front Lines of Field Garrison Training: Field Garrison Training Sites Become Fertile Ground for the Growth of Combat Talent

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This autumn, PLA Daily reporters embedded with multiple units across several theaters documented a coordinated push to shift officer and NCO development out of garrison classrooms and into active field training sites, with examples spanning a brigade of the 81st Group Army running artillery technician intensives in northern China, a PAP 2nd Mobile Corps detachment conducting mountain-warfare training in dense forest, a Southern Theater Command Army brigade embedding pilots with ground units during fog-condition air assault exercises in Lingnan, an 83rd Group Army brigade's unmanned innovation workstation modifying UAVs for forward reconnaissance, and Navy vessels taking junior personnel on blue-water attachment deployments. The article documents three named cultivation methods — on-post tempering (岗位淬火), cross-unit attachment training (交叉跟训), and mission forging (任务历练) — as an institutionalized response to the recognized problem that garrison-area training produces officers with theoretical knowledge but inadequate battlefield situational awareness, a limitation the article quotes unit leadership as framing explicitly with the phrase 'planting rice on a blackboard.' The breadth of units cited fits a pattern of PLA-wide messaging on combined-arms integration and realistic training, but the article does not establish whether these methods represent new policy guidance or local initiative, leaving the question of top-down mandate versus bottom-up practice unresolved.

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