Training Model Soldiers at the Whampoa Military Academy

The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945 ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813176741.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 27-52

Author(s):

Yan Xu

Keyword(s):

Civic Education ◽

Training Model ◽

Military Academy ◽

Personal Lives ◽

Branch Campuses ◽

Additional Branch ◽

History Of ◽

The Creation

The first chapter introduces the history of the Whampoa Military Academy by relaying how it began, the intentions behind its foundation, and how cadets were taught civic education. Xu notes how the academy regularly delved into cadets’ personal lives by reading their correspondence and eavesdropping on conversations. Xu continues by examining the speeches and lectures to the cadets of the academy as well as the commandant Chiang Kai-shek’s efforts to build additional branch campuses during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Much of Chiang’s efforts to increase morale within the cadets’ ranks celebrated physical sacrifice as heroic and dutiful, therefore, corroborating in the creation of a specific soldier figure during this time. The memoirs of Whampoa graduates reveal that Chiang’s intentions were not fully achieved since the discourse of the soldier figure constructed by Chiang was confronted or resisted by some Whampoa cadets and provincial warlords

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Implementation of the digital training concept in the basic flight training in the Serbian Military Academy

Vojnotehnicki glasnik ◽

10.5937/vojtehg70-34610 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 87-108

Author(s):

Slaviša Vlačić ◽

Aleksandar Knežević ◽

Vladimir Grbović ◽

Panos Vitsas ◽

Mihajlo Mihajlovic

Keyword(s):

Methodological Approach ◽

Training Model ◽

Flight Training ◽

Training Phase ◽

Military Academy ◽

Training Concept ◽

Military Pilots ◽

Successful Education ◽

High Degree ◽

Digital Training

Introduction/purpose: The paper provides a review of recent research in the field of digital training applied in the Serbian Military Academy flight training. Flight training represents the foundation of successful education of military pilots. Its division is based on the environment and a phase of realization. The main part and the core of successful flight training is basic flight training. This training phase has experienced significant changes with the introduction of the Technically Advanced aircraft (TAA) which is characterized by a high degree of digitalization not only of the cockpit but also of other aircraft systems. Consequently, a different methodological approach to training is needed, including a digital training concept. The paper shows the achievements and certain solutions based on some elements of digital training concepts used in the basic flight training at the Serbian Military Academy. Methods: The scientific approach is used in the evaluation of aircraft cockpit digitalization and in the implementation of a new training concept in the basic flight training in the Serbian Military Academy. Results: Based on the methodological analysis used, the importance and the values of the digital training concept in basic flight training are shown. Conclusion: Although the digital training concept is not mandatory in the existing flight training model in the Serbian Military Academy, it proves to be a valuable asset. Its potential is significant and, to a certain extent, it can change the nature of basic flight training. Due to digital training, cadets can fly more safely and their flying skills are acquired faster. In accordance with new modern aircraft acquisition in the Serbian Air Force, every aspect of the digital training concept has to be carefully considered, especially in the basic flight training phase, including conversion to new aircraft types.

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