Haitian Eagle: Is it reasonable for Colonel Tao Siyong to be promoted to deputy military major general in 7 years?

"Haitian Eagle" is the first film and television drama in the mainland to systematically reflect the main theme of the aircraft carrier test pilot group, outlining the characters of Yi Zhengbang, Qin Dadi, Tao Siyong, Yu Tao, Xie Zhenyu and so on. Among them, Tao Siyong is a character that is easily overlooked. At the beginning of the chapter, Tao Siyong was a regimental colonel. At the end of the day, Tao Siyong was already a deputy military major general.

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According to the plot, from a regimental colonel to a deputy military major general, Tao Siyong spent 7 years, is this plot design reasonable? Sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters, the author first briefly introduces the basic situation of Tao Siyong. Tao Siyong and Qin Dadi are old navies of the same era and have a doctorate degree. Before officially partnering with Qin Dadi, Tao Siyong was the director of the Navy's Carrier-based Aircraft Pilot Selection and Transfer Office. Tao Siyong has a high level of political work quality, stresses methods in his work, and assists Qin Dadi in solving many old and difficult problems.

The author noticed that on the Internet, Tao Siyong was promoted to major general in 7 years, and expressed great incomprehension, thinking that this was a detail goof. After all, Qin Dadi is a deputy division-level colonel, and it is understandable that he will be promoted to deputy army-level major general in 7 years. Tao Siyong is different, he was promoted from regimental colonel to deputy military major general in 7 years.

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In fact, it took Tao Siyong 7 years to be promoted to deputy military major general, which is in line with common sense, mainly reflected in the following two aspects:

1. Tao Siyong is a political cadre and has a certain advantage in age;

According to Tao Siyong's seniority, his military service is 24 years. According to the age of 18, the age in the play is about 42 years old. Everyone should have a concept: The military is different from other fields, and cadres at the regimental level in their early 40s belong to the echelon of young cadres who are in the prime of life, and they are all well-deserved "trendsetters" in all aspects of construction. After the successful landing of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft for the first time, this is only the first step in the long march of China's aircraft carrier industry.

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The aircraft carrier is a combat platform, and it is matched by a huge aircraft carrier formation, which involves all aspects, and naturally political and industrial cadres are indispensable. Tao Siyong worked hard and accumulated rich work experience in the process of forming the combat effectiveness of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft. Even if Tao Siyong leaves the test flight team, he can still play an important role in other positions. Moreover, Tao Siyong not only has an advantage in age, but also has a doctorate background, which is the capital to devote himself to the great journey of building a first-class navy in the world.

Judging from the service of some senior generals of our army, there are really similar to Tao Siyong. For example, Liu Zhe, the second captain of the Liaoning ship, studied for a doctorate in strategy at the Academy of Military Sciences in his early years and was promoted to rear admiral in 2019. Take Nie Haisheng of "Three Questions to the Sky" as an example, he has a doctorate degree from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As a matter of fact, our army attaches great importance to the training of officers, and there are not a few people with doctoral degrees. After all, since the founding of the army on 1 August, our army has always attached importance to the education of military academies and universities, and has placed the cultivation of qualified personnel at a strategic height.

Second, Tao Siyong is a doctor, which meets the needs of the transformation and upgrading of the Navy;

You may have overlooked a point in time, from the first landing of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft (November 2012) to Tao Siyong's promotion to the rank of deputy major general (7 years later, that is, in 2019), our army experienced the "military reform below the neck" in 2016. The current military reform has also brought great changes to the navy, ushering in another golden period of combat strength building. The most obvious thing is that the navy's shore-based aviation units have gradually withdrawn from the naval sequence, and most of them have been transferred to the air force, and our army has mainly formed a sea-based aviation unit with carrier-based aircraft as the core.

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You must know that the Liaoning is the starting point of the mainland's aircraft carrier business, and more than one aircraft carrier has been listed since then. In fact, after the Liaoning, there are Shandong and Fujian. A competent aircraft carrier aircraft unit needs to have a corresponding supporting training system, and its complexity is unimaginable to ordinary people. Therefore, the transformation and upgrading of the navy requires experienced old navies such as Qin Dadi and Tao Siyong.

Although Tao Siyong did not directly fly the J-15 carrier-based aircraft, he participated in the whole process of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft carrier. In the process of the test flight of the Jian-15 carrier-based aircraft, whenever there was an important juncture and there were disagreements within the test flight team, Tao Siyong was always able to play the role of a political cadre and always grasp the general direction of making the Liaoning ship form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. In a sense, Tao Siyong's contribution is no less than that of Qin Dadi, and political work has always been the only magic weapon for our army to defeat the enemy.

It is no exaggeration to say that Tao Siyong is Confucius's knife - capable of writing and martial arts, and his abilities in all aspects are still very prominent, and this is precisely the talent urgently needed for the transformation and upgrading of the navy. The navy is a military branch with a long construction cycle, high scientific and technological content, and large investment, not to mention the quenching experience of transformation and upgrading, and the requirements for talents are more demanding. Tao Siyong is a doctorate, with knowledge, experience and experience, which meets the needs of the transformation and upgrading of the Navy.

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On the whole, it is common sense for Tao Siyong to be promoted to deputy military major general in 7 years. In a big way, there are similar expressions in other film and television dramas. For example, Chen Jianfeng, the head of the "Tiger Regiment" in "Our Ten Years: Sharpening the Sword", was promoted from colonel to major general step by step in 10 years. Therefore, when we watch military dramas, we can't ignore the background of the times in order to see the storyline. Otherwise, watching military dramas will be ambiguous and open-ended. From this point of view, "Haitian Eagle" still plays a certain role in popularizing national defense education.

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