At that time there were no bookstores, so the books the trainees brought with them from home got passed around until they were falling apart. They even vied with each other to read the Chingchung Bulletin, a periodical published by the military. Because of the lack of leisure activities, the brigade would organize journalism competitions known as "wall newspaper contests."
女青年隊受訓的地方在屏東阿猴寮，非常偏僻，那個年代也沒有書店可以買書，學員從家裡帶來的書互相傳閱，簡直都翻爛了，連軍方所編的文宣刊物「精忠報」，大家也搶來搶去爭著看。