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The Alatubai Mountain in the depth of the Tianshan Mountain was clad in white snow. It was very cold in the open field, but the cold-resistant training site of an armed police force unit was seething with training activities. On February 3, after the sonorous bugle for lunch break was sounded, six kinds of savory steaming assorted food were put on solders' tables. 15 minutes later, the mess squad presented each officer and man with a cup of warm and fresh peach juice.
Since its establishment, this unit has been sticking to cold-resistant training of its troops. The freezing cold weather with temperature as low as 20 degree below zero in its area has brought forth some difficulties for its food supply. The field meals used to make up of "dry rations plus pickled vegetables", and some soldiers often developed oral cavity ulcer. Thus food supply had become an important factor holding back the upgrading of the combat power of the troops. In order to solve this problem at its root, leaders of this unit traveled far and wide to collect related data on how to keep vegetable fresh and the information on field nutrient assorted food. On this basis, the unit pooled its backbones in this respect to team up with local scientific research unit to conduct in-depth research and exploration. In the light of the fact that it is difficult to keep vegetables fresh in frigid weather conditions, the unit adopted such methods as vacuum packing, covering vegetables with beddings to prevent them from freezing, digging deep snow-cave for long-term vegetable storage. In order to put an end to single nutritious recipe of "dry ration plus pickles vegetables", the unit designed 21 sets of nutritious assorted food recipes for frigid plateau area in light of nutrition requirements at different elevations, different training intensities, different operational backgrounds and different climatic conditions. In addition, the unit also equipped companies with field seasoning boxes, cold-resistant multi-function field cooking stove to enable officers and men to enjoy different food every day. At the same time, the unit also used cucumber, tomato, pear and other fruits to make juice and packed them into boxes before they were distributed to companies. At meal times, officers and men only need to slightly warm up these juice on multi-function stove before they drink. With availability of these juices, the number of solder suffering from oral cavity ulcer was greatly reduced.
By Kong Yi and Li Lingzhi
(Feb.12, PLA Daily)
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