After modern weapons began to flourish, a soldier capable of meeting the requirements usually needed at least six months of training before developing a basic sense of combat.
Unlike the era of cold weapons, modern warfare placed higher demands on a soldier's qualities.
Not only did they need teamwork and obedience to orders, but they also had to focus more on coordination between different military branches, as well as the mysterious thing known as combat awareness.
As for these veterans who had retired from Pingtan Shelter.
Although they had entered the New Recruit Camp for various reasons not long after birth—probably when they were around ten-something years old—the modern training they had actually received was extremely limited. It could even be said that they had received none at all.
After all, the enemies they had faced were merely groups from other shelters in the city.
Everyone had been on the same level. In street battles, positional advantage and the influence of top combatants mattered more.
Even though Hunter Tiger had later consciously trained some of them, the role they could truly play on the battlefield remained pitifully small.
After realizing this, he had simply allowed them to develop on their own.
As long as they could maintain their combat strength, it did not matter even if they slept every day instead of taking part in routine training.
Everyone knew perfectly well that bullets on the battlefield had no eyes. If they slacked off now, what they paid later might be their lives.
However, in the Tian Yuan Territory, Su Deben clearly had no intention of letting these veterans continue like that.
As a proper academy-trained officer, he knew exactly how great an impact inaction could have once troop numbers reached a certain scale.
So he began with these veterans.
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