Read carefully the following excerpt on military training and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then comment on whether military training is necessary for students. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Is Military Training Necessary for Freshmen? With the new school semester around the corner, millions of Chinese students are set to undergo a 2-week-long compulsory military training to kick off their new lives in high schools or colleges. Is military training beneficial for students and should it be compulsory? "It doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, why we have to go through all these terrible experiences. Maybe it is a valuable memory to someone, but it never was to me. I went through three military trainings, when I began junior high school, high school and university, respectively, and each was the worst time I had during my stay in each school. We're merely trained in marching and walking moves, and it never makes any sense to me how we're gonna defend our country with this perfectly synchronized walking pace. Our trainers were soldiers and they were usually rude and very unfair when dealing with us. I was constantly being scolded and criticized during the training even when I was definitely obeying", said Sunny Li, a student of Communication University of China. However, some argues that there is nothing wrong with military training when you are in college, it is good for discipline and you learn how to work together as a team; also, when a country might get into a situation where its citizens are needed to defend the country they have some basic knowledge on how to do it.