The Olympic security medical, chemical and biological rescue group from the Jinan Military Area Command includes a brave and skilful "women detachment". Its 14 members always take the lead and vie with each other for taking the brunt each time when missions are being assigned. They refused to be eclipsed by the male members in regular trainings and tests being conducted in close-to-real-war environments.

　　As the missions for the medical, chemical, biological and nuclear rescue group involve subjects that they have never been trained before like they have to take on air-tight chemical protection uniforms and protection gloves of three layers thick before performing venipuncture to the injured, they have to be trained as such. Such uniforms make the originally simple operation extremely hard.

　　An Fengmei is the only chief nurse in the medical detachment. In order to overcome the difficulty, she led the members to practice the operation for tens of hundreds of times. With the aim to learn the skill of performing venipuncture on a rolling vehicle, they volunteered to practice the skill on a swing log in substitution for the rolling vehicle. After only one month of hard practice, they have mastered the skill, and better still they can even perform venipuncture under dim light on a rolling vehicle. As a result, each member can perform a venipuncture without a single failure even when they are in full gears.

　　By Huang Chao, Zhang Qingzhu and Liu Jinfeng

　　(Aug 20, PLA Daily)                                               Editor: Dong Zhaohui