Although digital technology and digital intelligence have become dominant in the 4.0 era, reading newspapers on electronic platforms is no longer strange and has become more convenient and easier than ever. However, for officers and soldiers of the DK1 platform stationed on the southern continental shelf of the Fatherland, reading newspapers on electronic platforms is still a "rare commodity".
Because in the midst of the stormy sea, the weather conditions are harsh, the waves are unpredictable, the internet is intermittent, and even calling to visit relatives on the mainland is very difficult, so where can we find the daily newspaper via the internet? Therefore, the paper newspaper from the mainland, carried by ships across the waves, delivered to the oil rig for officers and soldiers to read, is still the most effective method of "updating information" in the decades-long journey of protecting the sea of DK1 soldiers.
Like hundreds of other ships going to the continental shelf before, in late May, the Truong Sa 01 ship of the 125th Naval Brigade left port, overcoming the waves to go out to sea to join the soldiers “heads in the sky, feet never touching the ground” at the forefront of the wind and waves. On that beloved ship, in addition to carrying dozens of tons of rice, military supplies, and military uniforms, there was a “special gift” that could not be forgotten under any circumstances, which was letters and newspapers.
To deliver newspapers to the soldiers, after the duty officer or the DK1 Battalion liaison officer went to “receive” them from the Naval Region 2 library, the newspapers were distributed to the DK1 platforms on each shelf. Before the ship set sail, the soldiers’ newspapers, documents, and letters were packed in plastic bags (waterproof bags) by the liaison officer and transferred to the ship and neatly stacked in a compartment.
To avoid confusion between the letters from one platform and another, each package of newspapers was carefully written with the platform name: “Document DK1/12, document DK1/14, document DK1/15...”. During the calm sea season, letters, newspapers, and documents were transferred to the platform by a transporter; during the stormy season (from October to March of the following year), newspapers were tied tightly in protective bags and dropped into the sea for soldiers on the platform to pull up. Usually, when DK1 soldiers received the newspaper, the information was two months, even four months out of date (equivalent to the time or a shift change ship).
As the person directly responsible for distributing, packaging and delivering newspapers to the DK1 platforms, Sergeant Nguyen Duc Toan said that the DK1 platforms still maintain daily newspaper reading as usual. In order to avoid confusion between one platform and another, after receiving them from the library, they must proactively distribute newspapers to the platforms immediately. Before the ship sets sail, the newspapers are carefully packaged, transferred to the ship, and delivered to the platforms for the soldiers. This has always been a matter of concern and direction for the Party Committee and the DK1 Battalion commander, and has been done well for many years.
The DK1 platforms are stationed on the southern continental shelf of the Fatherland, hundreds of nautical miles from the mainland. The climate here is harsh, with waves and winds all year round, scorching sun, and difficult physical conditions. Because there is no signal relay station, the internet connection is unstable, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes there is almost no signal, not to mention the “interference” of the climate, clouds and waves. That also means that reading the daily newspaper and getting information from the platform soldiers is difficult.
Each platform has a television that receives signals through a TVRO dish, but it does not always receive images. Problems such as "time zone difference", the dish being "dislocated" by storms and winds, not receiving signals, and many other problems can happen at any time. Therefore, newspapers and tiny radios are now used effectively. After hours of training on combat plans to protect the platform, officers and soldiers sit around the tiny radio to listen to news from the mainland. Old newspapers are taken out by soldiers to "ponder". To preserve the newspapers and let everyone read them, young soldiers have bound them into different types of newspapers. Magazines with beautiful pictures, good poems, touching love stories are cut and pasted into the notebooks of the platform by young soldiers and considered as their "private little corner".
It is known that at the DK1 platform, professional military major Nguyen Van Long is a diligent collector of newspapers. Taking advantage of his free time, he binds old newspapers into bundles of each type for soldiers to pass around to read. This is a small and simple act but has great significance, demonstrating the spirit and responsibility of a soldier who has been attached to DK1 for many years.
“In the middle of the year-round sea, newspapers are not only knowledge but also our confidants. Every time a ship comes to change shifts, the thing we care about most is still the newsletter. Now reading online newspapers has become popular, accessing information from the mainland is also much easier, but not every rig can read online newspapers because the internet is often unstable and cannot be connected, so newspapers still dominate. After everyone has finished reading them, I put them away neatly on the cabinet, and the following month I take them out to read again like new. That work has become a beautiful cultural collection for many years now,” said Major Long.
Source: https://baovanhoa.vn/chinh-tri/bao-giay-vuot-song-ra-voi-truong-sa-va-nha-gian-dk1-144254.html
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