The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

91 – The butterfly flew (3)

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Once I judged, the biggest problem of the Ukrnian army was the lack of competence of the noncommissioned officer corps.

Everything the officer corps didn’t like, but to some extent extenuating circumstances are possible. From the beginning, officers were an elite group, and the war hadn’t even started yet, so it’s impossible to recklessly churn out officers.

But what about the noncommissioned officers?

In fact, it is assumed that there is a commander on the field, but those who make an outstanding performance in the field are ultimately noncommissioned officers.

Looking at Claude Lane right now, that’s the case, isn’t it?

The skill of an experienced and skilled noncommissioned officer can never be matched by most officers. It’s not that the backbone of the military is the noncommissioned officer.

However, the Ukrnian rank system tended to belittle noncommissioned officers too much.

How can there be little difference in the treatment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers?

When I was in the 3rd Magic Battalion, I could tell just by looking at the way the soldiers treated Rumia and Bell, who were strict noncommissioned officers.

Even in the modern Korean army, in the case of a first lieutenant or sergeant, there are many cases where soldiers of the corporal level or higher are swayed to some extent.

Because there will be no cases where a rank of sergeant or higher is swayed.

Because Rumia and Bell are down on their careers? Because you’re a woman? It’s not just for that reason. To take a more principled approach, the perception that “Noncommissioned officers” Do not have to be properly treated is deeply rooted in the Ukrnian military itself.

That doesn’t mean that seasoned veterans are promoted to noncommissioned officers.

It is very difficult to rise from a soldier to a noncommissioned officer, and it is practically impossible to rise from a noncommissioned officer to an officer.

The rank of sergeant is the last thing to put the soldiers on top…… It’s a really sick mindset.

That’s why such unfortunate incidents continued to happen that talented people could not do anything and just got discharged.

What if you don’t release your rank in a country where there is a partial conscription system?

So I just did it.

In the last two actual battles, soldiers who served as spearheads or who were exemplary for the platoon commanders to evaluate were selected and promoted to sergeants.

Existing sergeants went through the process of being promoted to sergeant all at once.

The platoon commanders who were in charge of each platoon were given rank insignia in the form of field commissioned officers. Of course, among them were members of my platoon who had been with me since the previous battalion.

“Bell Platoon Leader.”

“Ensign, Bell Meyer!”

“…… Why are you suddenly making an official statement? He didn’t originally.”

“hehehe, it’s because the word ‘so-called’ doesn’t stick well… ….”

Actually, the chief of staff, Josef Lewandowski, and the staff of the personnel department did not readily agree to the promotion of platoon commanders to officers.

As the entire battalion is scheduled to expand in the future, I could not dispute my opinion that more officers and noncommissioned officers were needed.

Let’s leave the airborne training we’ve been doing for months to the new non-commissioned officers and officers? Are you crazy?

They are people who will eventually roll over and over to learn the tactics of the 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion for several months.

Since all the currently assigned personnel have to fulfill the role of training instructors and teaching assistants, it was essential to wear a suit appropriate for them.

Especially, in an organization that is less modernized like the Ukrnian Army, no matter how many assistants or instructors you have, if the other party is lower in rank than you, you will often look down on them.

After the battalion’s rank system was extensively overhauled with Chief of Staff Joseph.

The next thing I touched was the organization of the troops.

It was planned to create a battalion combat team and claim it as a battalion, but that did not mean that it could not follow the battalion until the formation.

A battalion of ‘assaults’?

Of course, we need a supply corps to supply the supplies needed for the assault, and an air corps to manage and operate the airships sleeping behind the barracks.

Even though it’s in the form of personnel from the Technology Research Department being dispatched.

There was a need to be organized directly under our battalion, not dispatched. I wonder if something like the Airline Command or the Air Support Brigade is newly established. The Air Force’s power is only two transport airships, but it’s better to have a battalion now.

Therefore, I created an air platoon with Chief of Staff Joseph under the direct control of the commander.

The platoon commander of the air platoon is vacant first, isn’t it a bit too much to give Roxanna blindly?

I am a thorough meritorist.

A parachute is absolutely unacceptable, cancer.

Aside from that, we established two new companies under our command, and evenly distributed and stored the existing battalion manpower.

Now these will be the senior soldiers who will lead the new soldiers and noncommissioned officers who will come in the future.

In addition, the ‘medical platoon’ proposed by Bell Meyer was also assigned as a special staff member at the headquarters.

With this, the 8th Assault Sorcery Infantry Battalion has completed all preparations to transform into the 8th Assault Sorcery Infantry Combat Team.

All that remains is…….

All I had to do was make a training plan to transform the cute asses into a fearsome paratrooper.

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“Roxanna Ha…… No, is there a so-called?”

“Yes.”

It is said to be a medical station, but in fact it is a space with only a few beds in one room.

Captain Debra Bennett of the Central Technical Research Department, who is currently cooperating with the battalion, said that he would come to the battalion with construction engineers soon, so this poor medical unit can be fixed as soon as possible.

“How is your body?”

“It has improved a lot.”

Roxanna laughed, tucking her pink hair. She had consumed too much magical power in the process of escaping the Limansk Arsenal, and even weeks after that, she was still obliged to do her duty.

Even Edward, her foreign medical officer in charge, was outraged.

However, Roxanne, who was the person in charge of her, didn’t care much. Rather, she went so far as to say that she could bear it, since she sacrificed herself so that her battalion could get out safely.

Sonny Zeppelin recommended a postal medal with me in honor of her achievements.

As a result, a silver ribbon was added to Roxanna’s military uniform in addition to a sparkling diamond.

A silver medal for martial arts.

Her conferment ceremony was not held separately as the situation was the situation, but the reward for her contribution was certainly appreciated.

All of her battalion owed her their lives.

“I want to be discharged soon.”

“I’m still not sure if it’s right to put it right into training.”

“I even got a medal, but I have to work harder. Even her father seemed to be happy inside.”

I heard that Lieutenant Roxanna Elim’s father is now a mercenary leading a sizable trade corps in a trading city in southwestern Ukraine.

I’m not a noble, but what kind of problem is that?

If you are the upper lord of a trading city, you will actually have more real power than the nobles.

I was able to answer her long-held question about why she was able to get out of Roxanna and she enlisted unscathed.

There’s no way this would be possible unless it’s in the lobby.

No matter how idiotic the Ukrnian army is, they are not so idiots that they forcibly take heart patients.

Anyway, she said that such a daughter was promoted to second lieutenant (though unofficially) and that she received a silver medal for military service, so it is only natural that her father would be proud of it.

Of course.

“That’s because I left out the fact that he almost died and delivered it to me.”

At my words, she scratches her head in her embarrassment.

“If I had told the truth, he would have told me to be discharged right away. Or you moved her unit.”

“I would have done that too.”

“Doesn’t her daughter want that?”

“And if she dies, it’s up to the rest of us. If no one is alive, what is the use of medals and ranks?”

It was a bittersweet story.

In the end, those who have to live with the burden after death are the survivors. I could still clearly remember the faces of the fallen soldiers in the last battle.

Those who occasionally smoked cigarettes and talked about the future, those who chatted loudly at the town bar, and those who were left out several times during training and rolled in front of me.

The names could only be found on the memorial stone erected in front of the unit.

“Roxanna, let’s make one promise.”

“Yes?”

“From now on, I will never overdo it.”

I held out my little finger. Roxanna just stared at the gesture.

“Squadron commander…… No, even the unit commander knows. The fact that the reality is not so easy. I can’t promise you. I don’t know if I can keep it.”

“I know. But since you promised to do so, wouldn’t you do the minimum effort?”

Roxanna is always motivated. Yes, that’s good Burning himself and sacrificing himself for his comrades? How many soldiers have a more noble and honorable spirit than him?

However, the mindset that I must sacrifice is not always good.

At first glance, ‘sacrifice’ is a very noble thing, but it was an extremely subjective and relative value.

Let’s say there is a person who was killed along with his leg in order to stop the advance of the enemy army. But what if the enemy had been preparing for Doha from the beginning?

So if the result of blowing up the bridge wasn’t that great?

It is only a matter of seconds for a noble sacrifice to turn into a meaningless dog death.

After all, war is no different from other things in the world. No, war is dominated by extremely consequential values.

No matter what, the result must be good. Even if it’s a cruel story, I can’t help it. That’s the reality

“The attitude of sacrifice sometimes blinds people. Be careful not to get caught up in that point of view.”

“Captain Enoch… ….”

“Quickly, are you going to promise or not? If you don’t, I won’t replenish your mana from next time.”

“Puha.”

Roxanna let out a light laugh. Soon, her thin, thin fingers caught on my ring finger.

“Isn’t the unit commander receiving magic supplements from me?”

“Uh huh, only once with that kind of thing. That won’t happen anymore.”

“I’ll see you somewhere.”

Roxanna answered with a slight curl of the corner of her eye. It was the first time she had ever seen a desperate expression.