Jiang Yan Hai himself did not care much, but when the news of his official promotion to Senior Colonel and formal appointment as brigade commander of Dark Blade was circulated within Dark Blade and the Ninth Logistics Rapid Response Brigade, it could be said that all officers and soldiers in both brigades were somewhat stunned.
They were all soldiers. As the saying went, a soldier who did not want to become a general was not a good soldier. But Jiang Yan Hai's rise was simply too fast. Before long, he would have traveled a path that many soldiers could not finish in a lifetime.
People like Kang Lei and Fan Tian Lei were only more moved. They had watched Jiang Yan Hai grow step by step. It had only been a few years, yet that brat had gone from a new recruit to holding the same rank as them.
Moreover, both of them felt that when they took another step forward, that brat might very well advance alongside them.
It was even possible that if they ever reached the rank of general, they would be riding on that brat's coattails.
He Chen Guang and the others were equally speechless. Although they were now basically field-grade officers as well, someone like Li Er Niu was unlikely to follow the officer track. Officers now required academic qualifications. Li Er Niu had graduated from high school, and while his academics were passable and he had made up for them later, his foundation was indeed much weaker.
So, like Old Hei, Li Er Niu had taken the noncommissioned officer path.
He Chen Guang, Wang Yan Bing, and the others were already majors. In a special operations team like theirs, promotions were actually considered fast, but elite special operations teams had a problem: their ranks