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January, mid-month.
Time flies, years pass by like a shuttle.
"Time flies, years pass by like a shuttle!"
In the grand conference hall, Fang Huai stood beside the rostrum, looking steadfastly at the audience below.
The new recruits below all had a look of longing on their faces.
Longing to fill their empty shoulders with those red epaulettes.
Looking at the people below now, they still seem a bit naive, but after today's ceremony, when we look again, it will be a completely different sight.
Fang Huai, as the representative of the new recruits, spoke from his heart.
"We've been enlisted for a month and a half, and in this time, we've completed the transformation from local youths to real soldiers in thought.
Today is our collective coming-of-age ceremony.
Not as adults, but as persons!
As soldier people!
The squad leader says that we firemen are a colorful bunch of soldier people.
