College students are soldiers, not petty officers. You must be selected as a directly recruited sergeant after graduating from college. College students, fresh graduates and former graduates are all conscripts after joining the army, with a service period of 2 years; For college graduates and fresh graduates enlisted in the army, the central government implements corresponding tuition compensation and national student loan compensation; High school graduates who have been admitted to ordinary colleges and universities in the past will retain their admission qualifications after enlisting and enjoy the national tuition fee reduction and exemption policy after retirement; In our country, non-commissioned officers are selected from soldiers who have finished their service, and citizens with professional skills can also be directly recruited from outside the army to become non-commissioned officers; Non-commissioned officers do not belong to the cadre sequence, and the system of non-commissioned officers who do not wear the badge of seniority is established and constantly improved according to the needs of our army's modernization; 1978 On March 7, the first meeting of the Fifth the NPC Standing Committee discussed and adopted a decision on the military service system; The decision pointed out that in order to accelerate the revolutionization and modernization of our army, it was decided to implement a military service system combining compulsory soldiers and volunteers; It is stipulated that according to the needs of the army, I can voluntarily change some conscripts into volunteers and retain the technical backbone; This is the embryonic form of our army's petty officer system.