Although his attitude was normal, he didn't make things difficult for Elvin. After receiving the letter, the major glanced at the wax seal on it. He didn't even open it. He just wrote a few words on it and put it in the drawer on his right.
Elvin, who had excellent eyesight, glanced at it. There were a few unopened letters in a similar style. He immediately knew that he wasn't the only recruit in a similar situation.
He took out a stamp and marked Elvin's form. He placed it on one of the two stacks of forms on the table. Elvin noticed that the forms had the same stamp as his.
This was probably the purpose of the letter of introduction.
"Okay, I'm your instructor for the next three months of recruit training. You can call me instructor or Major Eugene.
Remember to come here tomorrow for the fitness test. Even if it's a waste of time for you, you still have to go through the basic procedure. Go call the next person in! "
"Yes, Major Eugene!" Elvin adapted well. He got up and changed into a military salute. He turned and walked out of the room.
Standing in the hallway of the courtyard waiting for Gary to come out, Elvin sighed. Sure enough, no matter where you go, there will always be connections. Even in another world, it's the same.
From the moment they came out of the door of the recruitment office, the new Marine soldiers were divided into three, six, and nine classes.
Major Eugene obviously misunderstood his identity because of the letter. However, since the benefits were already in front of him, Elvin wasn't stupid enough to correct it himself.
Moreover, he saved the Yellow Swan and prevented the old man from losing a lot of money and people. He had no qualms about taking the letter of introduction.
.....
Because of the lack of manpower in the navy, they used a year-round non-fixed recruitment period. As long as the number of recruits reached a certain number, they would start the training process.
Elvin and Gary were lucky. They were at the end of the batch.
The next day, the fitness test was naturally easy for Elvin. He and Gary both passed with high scores and officially became members of the third fleet.
What awaited the new recruits was a three-month training period before boarding the ship.
At the very least, they need to have a certain foundation so that after boarding the ship, they won't cause trouble or even die. After experiencing the baptism of blood and fire, as long as they can survive, they are basically qualified Marine soldiers.
Elvin didn't know what the Marine's top management would do. Instead, he heard an interesting story from the staff member who passed the test. He finally understood why the recruitment office was so shabby.
"It's all thanks to the chief officer of the base's logistics department, Lieutenant General Snyder," said the staff member.
Lieutenant General Snyder, who came from a merchant family, was not only a qualified quartermaster, but also a successful businessman.
He habitually marked the price of the things in his hands, and with the special status of the Navy, he turned them into several times the original profit. Naturally, this included the once magnificent and spacious recruitment office of the Navy!
His philosophy was, "When we make money, the buyer is our god. When we spend money, we are their god."
As a recruitment office that could only spend money and not make money, it became like this. The original site also became the residence of a large Chamber of Commerce, in exchange for a very generous rent return every year.
This simple and pragmatic guiding ideology promoted the rapid development of Gabred, and also brought a lot of money to the Third Fleet. In everyone's heart, he was a veritable god of wealth.
The staff member of the recruitment office could only complain a little. Even if the working environment was bad, he didn't dare to say anything.
Elvin felt that the quartermaster of the base was indeed a wonderful person. He saw very clearly that what attracted young people to join the army was never the magnificent naval base, but the bright future of being a Marine soldier or even an officer.
Instead, he could use the sense of security that the military port brought to the merchants and make full use of the prosperous land to make profits for the Navy. Then he could use this income to improve the treatment and benefits of the soldiers, and really spend the money on the blade.
"Sooner or later, I will have to deal with this quartermaster." Elvin had such a premonition in his heart.
.....
In the training ground, this batch of Marine recruits sat in a circle on the ground.
"Pa!"
The training wooden swords clashed, and the two people in the battle took advantage of the momentum to jump back. After landing, they quickly bounced back and clashed again.
Obviously, the physical fitness of the two people in the battle was far from what ordinary people could compare to. Their bodies turned and clashed with the wooden swords, and ordinary people's reaction speed couldn't keep up with their movements.
Moreover, although they were only training wooden swords in their hands, they made a loud whistling sound when waved. It could be imagined that if they hit a person's body, the injuries would not be lighter than real swords.
But these two people didn't care at all. Obviously, they were very confident in their own swordsmanship.
"Okay, stop!"
The battle paused, and the sand in the field also floated down, revealing two figures in Marine training uniforms.
One of them was the instructor of this batch of students, Major Eugene, and the other was student Elvin who was honorably selected as a sparring partner.
They didn't care about Elvin's panting appearance that he couldn't hold on any longer. In a month's time, Major Eugene had already seen through this kid's temperament.
Seriousness, hard work, perseverance, perseverance, and all kinds of other advantages were different from many of the rich and powerful children he knew. Only the point of not getting up early without benefits was one hundred percent similar to those people.
In the beginning, when he said that he wanted to teach him the unique military swordsmanship of the Navy in advance, he was diligent and obedient. He didn't need to ask him to come forward every day.
Then, he used a week's time like a genius to thoroughly learn the basics. When he wanted to ask him to come out as his sparring partner to demonstrate to other students, he would look like a half-dead salted fish.
Moreover, he even complained to him that sparring with him had delayed his own training and learning navigation skills!
"But, it doesn't matter! Who told me to be an official Knight. He can't beat me at all, so he has to be obedient. "
After suppressing him, the training went on as usual.
In less than a month, the other "badge students" with extraordinary backgrounds had left the training camp one after another. Eugene knew that they had been arranged by their parents, and he didn't stop them.
Only this Elvin Garrett who soaked in the training camp all day long like a sponge absorbing water, crazily cramming in all kinds of knowledge that others disdained.
If they didn't catch him, who else could they catch?
Even if the Navy was now a place where talents were concentrated, but for most of the recruits who came from civilian backgrounds, literacy alone was an important threshold.
After years of promotion, the literacy rate of Faletis had reached 20%. One in five people was literate. And other countries that restricted the spread of knowledge to the civilian class were everywhere. Countries where literacy rates were only in the single digits were the norm.
Simple words were already like this, let alone extraordinary swordsmanship that could be said to be a broad road.
So, if Elvin started as a civilian in this era, it was really a hellish start. If you were given a secret manual, without systematic knowledge, you wouldn't be able to learn it at all!
The huge class gap was always reflected, but this situation was more obvious in the world with extraordinary power than in his previous life.
Eugene's choice was also a kind of helplessness.
"Soldiers! I announce that from tomorrow onwards, Assistant Elvin will replace me to teach you the military swordsmanship that you just demonstrated … "
At this point, he was interrupted by the thunderous cheers below. Why did these people join the army? Was it really to fight pirates and protect the country? Wasn't it to stand out, get promoted, and get rich?
Yes! The hearts of the simple people were so simple, true, and honest!
Any knowledge and skills passed down from the upper class were related to whether they could rise up in life and break away from the bottom of society. Let their descendants have a chance to break away from the established destiny of being farmers, herdsmen, and fishermen at birth!
Although Elvin was a little annoyed with Instructor Eugene's decision, but with so many pairs of eager eyes staring at him, he couldn't refuse.
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