Long Zhan and the old guys from Team B were drinking wine and chatting about the recent happenings between each other. The atmosphere was very harmonious and full of joy.
Compared to when Long Zhan was still in Team B, Team B has changed a lot now.
One less Trent and one more Full Metal.
During the chat, I learned that Full Metal is just a foreign aid, and the actual establishment is still the captain of Team A, who was transferred not long ago to fill the vacancies in Team B.
As for Full Metal, who is the captain of Team A, Mao comes to Team B as a long-term foreign aid when he has time.
Why did Trent leave?
Neither Pure Metal nor anyone in Team B had an explanation, and it was hard for Long Zhan to ask.
These are confidential!
Secondly, Lei's change surprised Long Zhan.
Because the conditions are enough to be promoted to chief sergeant, and the DG stipulates that two chief sergeants are not allowed to be in an action team at the same time.
If he continues to take the officer route, he will have to be transferred to another team to become a captain.
In addition to continuing to follow the path of the non-commissioned officer system, Lei's conditions are also enough to choose to become an officer and become a second lieutenant after attending a military academy.
However, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the US military have a strict division of labor in terms of job functions.
Even if Lei went to military school and became an officer, he would still not be able to stay in Team B.
Because there is only one captain-level officer in each action team,
The first operations group where Team B is located already has Eric, and Ray will still be transferred to other operations groups.
In order to stay in Team B, continue to fight side by side with Jason and others.
Lei finally chose the third path——
Become a Warrant Officer!
Warrant officer is a very unique military system in the US military. Although it is part of the officer system, it has nothing to do with real officers.
They are special one-way professional and technical personnel.
The promotion method of warrant officers is also unique. From low to high, they are warrant officer first class, warrant officer second class, warrant officer third class, warrant officer fourth class, and warrant officer fifth class.
That's the end of Warrant Officer 5.
The promotion route further up is not the conventional second lieutenant, lieutenant, or captain, but a vertical line that ends at the top like a noncommissioned officer.
Since the minimum requirement for a noncommissioned officer to be promoted to a warrant officer is that he needs to be a second-class sergeant major above E8.
He already has a strong foundation and has a long service life in the army. His salary is much higher than that of a second lieutenant. There is no way his salary will go down after promotion.
Therefore, the salary of warrant officers is very generous.
The starting level of Warrant Officer Class 1 is equivalent to that of a Captain, and the most senior Warrant Officer Class 5 has a salary equivalent to that of Brigadier General in the military rank.
Not counting various allowances, subsidies, pensions, various insurances, etc., it is pure monthly salary.
The monthly income can reach more than 10,000 US dollars.
It was precisely because Lei became a warrant officer, a specialized technical officer whose status was between a noncommissioned officer and an officer, that he managed to neither conflict with the naval officer system nor with the noncommissioned officer system.
Only then was he able to stay in Team B.
Warrant officers do not have the command and leadership rights of officers and only perform technical work in the army, but the work they do is more complicated than non-commissioned officers and officers.
For example, Lei is a warrant officer specializing in intelligence reconnaissance. He not only needs to serve as an intelligence expert for Team B, but also needs to analyze various intelligence before taking action.
You also need to personally perform some dangerous reconnaissance missions like CIA agents and spies.
During the conversation, Long Zhan learned...
Not long ago, Lei and a CIA agent went to get information. As a result, their car overturned and they were kidnapped by armed men. They almost lost their lives there.
Fortunately, Team B arrived in time and rescued Lei in time.
Lei Jian took a different approach and became a warrant officer. He could continue to stay in Team B and fight alongside his brothers, and his income was also guaranteed.
The financial deficit incurred by my wife when she gave birth to her son has been effectively resolved.
Another old acquaintance of Team B from Long Zhan, Ordnance Sergeant Diaz, who was responsible for preparing equipment for the team members, has also undergone great changes.
She applied for military school and graduated as a second lieutenant.
Mandy replaced the original CIA intelligence foreign aid of Team B, but later left due to some special reasons, and became the intelligence expert of the First Action Team.
"Mandy has left Team B?"
Long Zhan was very surprised when he heard the news. He and Mandy had always been in contact, but Mandy never said anything, which really surprised him.
However, thinking about the military reform not long ago, Long Zhan suddenly came to his senses.
Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it would no longer support the CIA's work around the world and withdraw most of its anti-terrorism military support to the CIA.
The strategic cooperation with the CIA was basically terminated, and the two parties were completely at odds.
The U.S. Department of Defense no longer supports the work of the CIA. As a well-known intelligence agency in the world, the CIA is not an easy-going entity.
When the military no longer supports the CIA's anti-terrorism work, the CIA will withdraw its long-term intelligence foreign aid deployed in the military.
The Department of Defense knew that the CIA would do this, and in order to allow the U.S. military to fill the gaps in intelligence, it decided to build its own intelligence system.
Instead of relying solely on the CIA.
As a result, a large number of CIA's foreign aid left the army, and a large number of intelligence personnel trained by the army themselves came to replace them, maintaining the normal operation of the army in terms of intelligence.
Diaz, who originally intended to stay in Team B, had already been exposed to Team B's intelligence work.
After graduating from the military academy, he became a second lieutenant, which perfectly complied with the current new military policies. It was a natural thing to become the new intelligence expert of Team B.
Mandy's departure from DG is a high-level secret involving major internal changes and will certainly not be easily leaked to the outside world.
It makes sense not to tell Long Zhan.
In addition to these changes in the B-team members, the management has also undergone major changes.
Jason had seen that Clay was mature enough and fully capable of leading Team B forward, and he had always felt that he was losing too much money to his wife and children.
Choosing to leave the first line and retreat to the second line, Clay became the new leader of the B team.
As a result, Jason's idea was shattered.
Jason had just reported to the Navy Department to leave Team B. Eric, the officer of the first action group, was promoted because he had made great achievements in commanding the first action group.
He was transferred to another squadron as a squadron leader and left the First Action Group where he stayed for several years.
Blackburn, the original red team squadron leader, was also promoted to the senior commander of DG and went to the headquarters to take charge of relevant command work.
In less than a month, all responsible persons related to Team B were changed.
Jason's recommendation as captain who took a back seat turned out to be empty talk.
Regarding the arrangements for the vacant captain of the main B team, the newly arrived red team squadron leader did not appoint Clay, but instead a wave of airborne captains came.
The newly arrived officer of the first action group, Black Entrust, is also a very conceited person who always makes all kinds of blind arrangements.
This caused the remaining members of Team B to complain incessantly.