Military of China, force comment.
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Spring Festival is approaching, my officers and men of the navy to escort people to the motherland New Year. Our reporter Xu Ye Xu Ye Qingshe

newspaper correspondent special correspondent Paul Ribeiro

New Year plow the waves when the wind line

New Year when the people of the motherland the occasion, thousands of miles away from the Gulf of Aden, the Navy convoy formation, “MOS” ship, “Wenzhou” ship, “lake” ship and “Lake” ship more than a thousand soldiers are shouldering the motherland and the people, the wind waves plow escort on the fairway.

12:00 local time, set sail over the Bay of whistle sound Cheya Ding, “Zhenhua 13″, “Kai Fu”, “Maersk Arizona” and 14 columns of foreign ships into three way set sail from the eastern Gulf of Aden westbound. Commander of the formation Qiuyan Peng said, this is my first implementation of the Navy fleet escort 168 escort missions approved ship will arrive in two days of the first month the western Gulf of Aden point of care solutions, in order to ensure the safety of the ship to be protecting, formation arrangements “MOS” ships and “lake” be accompanied by escort ship, was also sent commandos to protect merchant shipping on the onboard security.

in the “MOS” ship in the cab, Zhang Hui, head of fleet operations command group is working with the command post analysis of the escort personnel that may arise piracy case study responses. “Fleet was protecting the ship formation, formation arrangements, configuration and other aspects of firepower have taken specific measures. I believe that through our joint efforts, we can protect the ship’s crew and by their families satisfied staying the New Year.” Zhang Hui said.

correspondent flight preparation room door open, see the deputy head of a flight, super light show pilot Chang is working with the crew of the flight map. Flight map, red pen depicting the route as a beautiful Chinese knot. Flight helmets, flight package neatly placed in the pilot side. Zhang said that Leung told reporters that, as long as the situation, take off at any time to perform the task.

flight deck, heavily armed commandos who are under the command of Captain Sun Hao training. I saw a group of commandos from the top 56 meters of hangar flying down along the rope, and on the ground to start fighting another group of commandos, the two sides did her best, Enter the Dragon. Sun Hao said: “Although the New Year, but we can not stop one day of training, both training, but also a warm-up, we are ready.”

setting sun was setting, the darkening sky. Watching the mighty fleet, reporters suddenly remembered formation askew couplets written by men: Miles expedition, ocean escort was a big country style; ride Aden, men show the formation of Chinese style. (Newspaper Gulf of Aden February 13, Xinhua)

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