An air force brigade under the PLA Northern Theatre Command, codenamed "Liaodong Eagle", is a very young combat unit, and almost all of its pilots were born in the 1980s and 1990s. They choose the eagle as their symbol because it is widely respected for always flying the highest and fastest in the sky. In early September, the brigade's pilots went popular on the Internet because of a video in which they warned off the foreign military planes in English over the waters very near to China's territorial sea.
