University of Nandamik - Across Mandalay

Chapter (1)

February 1942

I don't remember the exact date. I pulled down the window of the train compartment I was riding in and looked out.

Under the pale rays of dawn, the 11,000-foot peak of Mount Gilat glowed like a diamond.

The train was spiraling up, looking towards the Bolan Valley.

"Kuwait...I'm coming to you."

I even whispered it. Quetta is the city where the Military Academy is located.

The encyclopedia says that Quetta was the capital of the British-occupied province of Blue Chitstan.

The word "Kew Kaw" has changed to "Kweta". It gives the meaning of "Tat Myo".

It is situated north of Karachi, 536 miles by rail. It is 5,500 feet above sea level. It has a population of 60,000. It was almost completely destroyed by a major earthquake on May 31, 1935. It is 80 miles from the Afghan border. It is a mountainous region.

It is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. It is described as a dry and lazy city.

Although the encyclopedia's description of Quetta's topography and climate is accurate, the comment that it is "a dry, boring city" is completely wrong to me.

The winter in Quetta is so severe that it can cause chapped lips and cracked skin. Women are known to protect themselves from this disease by adding olive oil to the water they bathe in.

After three weeks of being stranded in the Rakhine, I arrived in Quetta to attend a training course. I did not find the dull and dry Quetta that the encyclopedia describes, but rather a lively, joyful, and fun-filled Quetta.

However, the threat of "war" is also on the other side.

While I was with my battalion in Kui Ta in 1940, I noticed that the war situation was getting worse day by day.

The British government restored the railway, which had been built to transport even a small amount of metal.

Now, with Germany attacking Russia, the only countries separating the Nazi war machine from India, the brightest jewel in the British Empire, were Persia and Afghanistan.

As a result, the railways, which had been abandoned for so long, were being urgently repaired, and soldiers from garrisons across India, who had previously lived in close quarters with their families, were now forced to abandon their children and wives to go to war.

When the wives and children of British military officers and officials from all over India moved to Quetta under government orders, Quetta, which was already full of news, gossip, and fun, became even more bustling.

At this time, the flames of war were blazing in Southeast Asia, and the Japanese captured the British fort of Singapore.

An order from Pol. Gen. O'Chin-lek arrived at our Quetta garrison, stating that officers who usually entered the dining hall after wearing their dinner uniforms must always wear khaki uniforms and be ready.

The military has reached India and is having an impact. | The military commanders' training, which had been taught weekly for 2 years, has been cut to 5 and a half months due to the war situation. .

However, the curriculum you will have to follow is not much different from the 2-year curriculum.

We will be training hard.

However, I can't help but attend the ' Put Thaban ' parties that are held only on Wednesday and Saturday nights, and I absolutely must. And I always have a party in my room every Sunday night.

When the train I was on pulled up at Quetta station , I saw a tall, old officer in a faded brown khaki uniform on the platform. He was waiting for a friend of his who, like me, was about to enter the Army Academy.

The three of us took a taxi to the university on the outskirts of Quetta. | After settling our bags in the dormitory assigned to me, which had a study, a bedroom, and a bathroom, I looked at the list of officers who would be attending the course and was pleased to see that I knew them well.

There are about 90 people who will be taking the course. Almost all of them are around the age of thirty. Almost all of them are temporary promoted to the rank of Pol. There are only about four or five or six people who are majors and lieutenants.

The first week of training at the Quetta Military Academy was spent, much like the first days at Singhas Military Academy in England, with the relevant books, formation charts, lists of various weapons and ammunition, and the formation of groups and assignment of training rooms.

The teachers who will be teaching us are those who have been temporarily promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the region.

I know these teachers won't really teach us, they'll just instruct us. Good.

The night before the training, I was sitting alone in my room, reflecting on what I had been through in the army. ' Having left my mother's regiment and joined the Military Academy, I was like a child who had left his parents and set out on a journey to seek his fortune in the vast world, hiding his little bundle in a stick.

The little bundle I carried on my shoulder, a little bit of experience and knowledge, gathered piece by piece, was almost unfathomable.

War is a task that requires the discipline of resolving the complexities of the human world that cannot be resolved by law, and I feel discouraged that the little experience and skills I have in my bag are not enough to support me.

The military is a large organization that combines two main forces: armed personnel and personnel who hold documents and files.

When armed personnel eliminate the enemy, the file-carrying personnel are there to search for and support everything necessary for the elimination, and to clean up the mess left behind by the armed personnel after the enemy has been eliminated.

An army has three divisions: infantry, artillery, and armored vehicles, which have replaced the old cavalry. "In addition to the armed personnel and the file personnel, there are also engineers and signal personnel, who are indispensable in eliminating the enemy.

Although the personnel of these two armies did not physically eliminate the enemy, they were on the front lines in eliminating the enemy, so these personnel are included in the list of armed personnel.

This is...all the skills I know. Among the file-handling staff, there are also staff from various departments such as support, transportation, medicine, ammunition, electricity and industrial workshops, law, payroll, finance, health, and sanitation. I don't understand all of these departments in detail. I can only understand them in passing.

Regarding the military structure, I would like to reiterate what I learned at Singhas Technical College.

It is said that an army is like a very large triangular pyramid.

At the top of the triangular pyramid is the government. Next to the government are some generals and some field marshals. Under these generals are lieutenant generals. Under these lieutenant generals are more generals. Under these generals are brigadier generals, colonels, majors, and captains. At the base of the triangular pyramid are hundreds of thousands of ordinary soldiers.

This is the song I learned at Singhas University.

However, from my limited experience, I realized that the army is like an inverted triangular pyramid, with the base of the pyramid reaching the top. The top is the main pillar below.

This main pillar is the discipline and strength of every warrior...

As much as I clearly understood the structure of the combat forces , I have heard various conclusions and interpretations regarding the leading groups.

A large army is like a very large, very detailed machine , with all its parts, from a device as small as a hair to a device as large as a chain tied around an elephant, working together to keep the entire machine running.

What keeps a large army going is the 'chain of command'. It is very easy to give orders at the top and bottom of a large army. When the president or the prime minister gives the 'order' to overthrow the French government of Michie that has taken power in Syria and transfer power to an independent French government, the ' order ' from the top passes through more than 200 chains of command and reaches the bottom, where you will see Corporal Ban Bahadur Thapar giving the order to 'shoot' his seven comrades .

The other 200 or so other chain "orders" between the "orders" given from the top and the "orders" given from the bottom are no longer as clear and simple as the " orders " given from the top and the bottom, but have become "orders " that have to be given while overcoming various problems .

Who decided that Corporal Ban Bahadur Thapa should climb to the top of this hill and attack?

Who makes the arrangements to ensure that while he is attacking this hilltop from the other side, no other platoon or company, including his, is attacking at the same time from the opposite side? That is, who directs his own troops so that they do not shoot at each other by mistake?

Who sent the ammunition manufactured in Calcutta, some 3,000 miles from the Syrian front, to this hilltop at this time by this corporal? And who could have guessed the quantity of ammunition that would be enough to capture the hilltop?

Who came and fed this young corporal who was attacking the top of a hill? Who gave him medicine for his stomachache yesterday? Who put letters in his bag?