Military Career: It Began with a Draft Notice in the Mail

In the previous chapters, I read that the male protagonist had the physique of an ordinary high school student, came from a modest family, and usually ate sweet potato rice, rarely eating meat. Even after being reborn, there was no specific explanation of his abnormal physique.

A diploma is a passport to advancement; the lower the diploma, the harder it is to move up, and the higher the diploma, the easier it is to advance. Those who don't understand this really believe that those Harvard dropouts truly started from nothing. 😒

Although it's a military-themed light novel, the plot completely treats all the other characters as "idiots..." First: Reborn back to 1998, into an ordinary family, the protagonist was mediocre to an extreme degree before his senior year of high school: suddenly he writes a letter...

So, the protagonist wants to take the commander route, but can't he even wait six months? Couldn't he just get a high school diploma before joining the army? He's going to join with only a junior high school diploma? Doesn't he know that the diploma issue will make him give back all the extra time he gained later?

During a military exercise, a regiment happened to encounter a herdsman seeking help from over ten kilometers away. The crucial point is that this regiment was just passing through, yet they didn't suspect a thing! Furthermore, despite having the option to contact the command headquarters, they didn't.

Is it really unbearable to see the protagonist commit so many violations? What is the purpose of a military exercise? It's to test the combat capabilities and development methods of the troops, not for your personal show. And what stance do the higher-ups have to forgive these violations? Would such a thing happen in a real war?

During the recruit training period, it was first explained that the protagonist's talent was not the best, and the aim was to demonstrate the protagonist's willpower through hard work. But the overall feeling wasn't captured. Then comes the subscription phase, specifically the recruit competition segment.

I feel like before I turned 25, I liked watching stories about individual soldiers and special forces. But after 25, my tastes shifted to large-scale army operations, combined land, sea, and air warfare – that kind of masculine romance. It's strange, a subtle change.

Why not take the college entrance exam? Applying to a military academy would give you a much higher starting point.

Are you saying a high school student's body carried wood at home for a month and carried a flag for 20 kilometers, making him more impressive than a veteran who has trained for years? If you were writing a system-based story or a story about transmigrating and having an even stronger body, or being exceptionally talented, that would be plausible. But if you have nothing but willpower, how could you possibly endure it?