Some people say that when a thing is done to the extreme, we will become experts in a certain field, and we will make extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions. In the continental army, the first-class sergeant major is comparable to the "panda" level figure, and is very rarely respected, commonly known as the "King of Soldiers", which is the highest rank among soldiers.
There is a "soldier king" in the mainland army, he only has a junior high school education, and with his own tenacity, he eventually became a generation of "soldier king". He served in the army for 30 years, the army to keep him, twice changed the establishment, in the face of high-paying hires outside, he was not moved, insisted on the barracks, he just wanted to be a good soldier. When he was a soldier to the extreme, he paid a lot for this, and he lost a lot, and he didn't even see his father for the last time.
He is Rui Yinchao, let's walk into his legend together.
Rui Yinchao was born in August 1970 in An ordinary family in Guannan County, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and he has had a "dream" of becoming a soldier since he was a child.
His parents were too busy with work to take care of their young Rui Yinchao. So Rui's mother sent him to his grandmother's house 20 kilometers away to help take care of him. Near his grandmother's house, a group of PLA soldiers were stationed, and the playful little Yinchao saw the steps of the PLA uncle straightening his waist and moving forward through the fence, and he was naughty, and he also learned next to him, feeling good and mighty, at this time, a seed of being a soldier gradually sprouted in his heart.
With the passage of time, his desire to become a soldier became stronger and stronger, but on the way to becoming a soldier, it can be described as a twist and turn. His father did not want him to be a soldier, but wanted his son to inherit his father's business, to be a cook, and to spend his life ordinary.
Rui Yinchao didn't think so: he didn't want to go around the pots and pans all day, around the stove, he longed to travel in space and become an air force.
Can this wish of his be fulfilled? After graduating from junior high school at the age of 17, he secretly signed up for the army without his parents, but because he failed the physical examination, he had no choice but to be brushed off. It turned out that Rui Yinchao's skin was a scar left by cutting rice when he was a child, which was mistaken for a skin disease, and his body was rejected, which showed that it was not so easy to become a soldier.
The first time he was rejected, Rui Yinchao went to sign up for the army the next year, and rushed to the registration office in a hurry, but he did not want to recruit new recruits there, so he was unwilling to return home.
In the third year, Rui Yinchao signed up to join the army with the attitude of trying it out, and this time he successfully became a People's Liberation Army. After enlisting in the army, he was assigned to the air service stove of a certain land aviation brigade in Chengdu, and he tried his best to escape the stove given to him by his father, and went around and back to the stove, as a logistician, it was really impermanent, but he did not complain. If he comes, he will be safe, and he will strive to do his part.
Although it is still close to the dream, but in the army, there is still a chance to become a pilot. Later, after many applications, he was finally arranged to learn aircraft maintenance at a maintenance base and engage in aircraft-related work.
Maintaining an aircraft is a difficult and complex job that involves knowledge of many aspects, such as electrical engineering, advanced mathematics, mechanical principles, etc. This Rui Yinchao, who only has a junior high school education, can he be competent?
Looking at the dense dashboards with logos large and small, he was dazzled and did not know where to start? If you don't understand it, you can learn it, but because of the poor foundation, he began to feel that his cultural level was seriously insufficient.
The stupid bird learned first, diligently and diligently made up for the clumsiness, and Rui Yinchao, who did not accept defeat, began to make up for the knowledge and formulated a complete learning plan for himself.
In order to make up for his shortcomings in knowledge, he borrowed high school books from his comrades-in-arms, learned the basics, and consulted his comrades-in-arms where he did not understand. After completing the courses of high school, I began to teach myself university courses, and I also obtained a self-taught college diploma, and the gap between basic theory and others was gradually narrowing.
While striving to learn theoretical knowledge, Rui Yinchao also pays attention to the improvement of professional knowledge. He got up earlier than other comrades-in-arms and went to bed late, in order to read more about the theoretical knowledge of aircraft maintenance, some aircraft structure diagrams, circuit diagrams, and when he slept, he relied on his memory to review it in his mind. If you encounter something you don't understand, ask an experienced teacher.
Combining theory and practice, Rui Yinchao took advantage of the time to go to the idle machine at night to constantly explore and test his theoretical level.
In this way, Rui Yinchao relied on the tenacity of not accepting defeat, studied hard, sharpened a sword for ten years, and became an experienced special division in the army. He had touched almost every screw on the plane, figured out every circuit diagram of the plane, and listened to the sound of the plane starting to tell what the problem was.
In this process, he paid unimaginable efforts for ordinary people, as long as there is a pay, he will reap, he gained the title of "King of Soldiers".
It's time to show off your true technology. In the summer of 1998, a newly launched aircraft malfunctioned and had to be stopped urgently. The staff checked for a long time and could not detect the problem, and in desperation, the commander of the unit could only say: Or change the plane to fly!
At this moment, an ordinary soldier stood up and said to the regimental commander: "Show me, ten minutes can be done", after saying that Rui Yinchao went on the plane to check, quickly found that there was a problem with the power control box, quickly removed and replaced with a new control box, stepped off the plane and said to the regiment commander: "Done." It was 4 minutes faster than expected.
The regimental commander half-believed and ordered the crew to start the plane again, and sure enough, the plane roared again and took off smoothly. The regimental commander gave Rui Yinchao a thumbs up: It was really good, courageous and insightful, and the soldiers present also cast surprised and praised glances at him.
These praises have long been commonplace for Rui Yinchao in his work, and what is amazing is that he dares to argue with foreign experts.
For a long time, the mainland's technology in manufacturing aircraft was subject to people, and even some aircraft needed to be imported from abroad.
In 2000, the army imported 6 aircraft from abroad, but soon after 4 aircraft failed, foreign experts checked for two weeks and did not find the cause of the failure.
Foreign experts have no choice but to conclude that it is a coupling problem of machine components, which can only be slowly run in daily work. But Rui Yinchao thought to himself: Taking off with a problematic plane, isn't it a joke about the lives of comrades-in-arms, how can you let it go!
So he raised an objection: if it is a machine coupling problem, then why is the other 2 aircraft no problem, but these 4 aircraft have problems? How does the manufacturer inspect the qualified factory?
These questions left the foreign experts looking at him with contempt, "You are a little soldier who knows more about airplanes than we do?" In the end, there was no way, the dead horse was a live horse doctor, and after obtaining the consent of the leaders of the troops, Rui Yinchao began to carefully inspect the various parts of the aircraft, and finally found that there was a problem with the hydraulic steering gear of the aircraft.
The foreign experts present were dismissive, and after Rui Yinchao replaced the hydraulic steering gear, the aircraft failure disappeared, allowing the foreign experts to change their faces in an instant and give a thumbs up: Chinese Rui, real cattle!
This time, Rui Yinchao not only recovered millions of economic losses for the country, but also won more dignity and honor in the world.
In 2002, our army introduced a new type of helicopter from abroad, and in order to test the flight effect of the aircraft on the plateau, the troops decided to test flights in Tibet. However, at that time, the aircraft had not yet completed the formal handover, and in order to facilitate transportation, the troops could only break up the aircraft and then transport it to Tibet.
Rui Yinchao followed the troops to Tibet, and his task was to assist the foreign expert group invited to install a test helicopter. These experts assigned him a lot of work, deliberately making it difficult for him, one moment letting him install the tail palm, one asking him to assemble the antenna, and the next asking him to put up the indicator light.
Rui Yinchao didn't cry bitterness at all, he really did all these tasks with his personal ability, and there was no mistake at all.
The foreign experts could not help but ask the troops who this young man was, and when they learned that Rui Yinchao was just an ordinary soldier, they were stunned, solemnly respected him, and firmly remembered the name "Rui Yinchao" and expressed their satisfaction to him.
Rui Yinchao is not only very technically good, but also has a meticulous attitude towards work, conscientious, and does not stay overnight in troubleshooting.
One day in April 2013, when the crew members flew back from a mission, a pilot said to Rui Yinchao: "There is something wrong with this plane." When he heard this, he immediately threw himself into the repair process, when it was late at night, and the staff who were nearby suggested that he go to repair it tomorrow.
He adhered to his principles and led everyone to repair until two or three o'clock in the morning, and the fault was eliminated. This rigorous and dedicated work attitude is admirable and worthy of being the "king of soldiers" of our army.
Rui Yinchao's superb technology and rigorous work attitude have made him win the respect of the whole army in the military, regarded as an example, regarded as a "fixed sea god needle", with the old Rui, everyone is very assured, the pilot can travel in space with confidence.
For more than ten years, he gave up his small family for everyone, gave up time to reunite with his family in order to carry out his mission, and did not even see his father for the last time, which was his most regrettable thing. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been a dilemma, and if there is a loss, there will be a gain.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Rui Yinchao has been a soldier for 15 years, and in 2004, according to the regulations of the army, he was about to retire. In the 15 years that the army has been working hard, he has already regarded the army as a second home, and his comrades-in-arms as his own family, and he is really reluctant to leave soon! Before leaving, he decided to do one thing and did not want to leave regrets!
The news that he is about to retire has not gone away, and some airlines have extended olive branches to him after learning about it, promising an annual salary of 300,000 or 400,000 yuan, and also sending cars to the house, which is extremely tempting. In the face of these temptations, Rui Yinchao was not moved, he only wanted to be a good soldier, or liked to stay in the army, and applied to his superiors to stay in the army.
Before retiring from the army, he handed over more than 40 work notes, totaling more than 400,000 words, to the troops in the past 15 years, hoping to leave them for other comrades-in-arms to learn from for reference.
When the leaders of the troops saw this stack of notebooks, they could not help but sigh: This is the first standardized and complete fault analysis source material of our army's army aviation special specialty... It has a high promotion value.
How could such a talent let him retire from the army? To this end, the headquarters held a special meeting to discuss the decision, to change the establishment for him, hoping that he would stay, and in view of his contribution to the army, he was specially approved as a "first-class sergeant major".
Feeling full of pride and more enthusiasm, he threw himself into his work and worked in the military for more than 10 years until December 2019, when he officially retired.
Rui Yinchao has been in the army for 30 years, spilling his youth and blood in the barracks and blooming with dazzling brilliance. In the past 30 years, he has won numerous awards, including the third class merit and the second class merit once each, and won the honorary titles of the advanced individual of the whole army studying and becoming a talent, the first prize of the all-army non-commissioned officer outstanding talent award, and the advanced individual of the whole army lei Feng. In January 2019, he was awarded the title of "Individual Pacesetter in the Whole Army's Practice of The Goal of Strengthening the Army".
For 30 years, Rui Yinchao has only done one thing: maintain the aircraft and use it to the extreme to ensure the safety of the lives of his comrades as much as possible. In the past 30 years, he has maintained 6 types of helicopters, mastered the diagnosis and treatment methods of more than 500 types of helicopter "difficult and complicated diseases", eliminated more than 700 helicopter failures and accidents, and safely guaranteed more than 2,000 flights. Safety incidents still hold a record of zero.
Not only that, Rui Yinchao has also completed a number of innovative achievements, and the troubleshooting methods and maintenance experience summarized by him have been vigorously promoted in the whole army and become a veritable "soldier expert".
Like Rui Yinchao's performance in the army, I believe that this is only a partial microcosm of the style in the army, and there are many soldiers who have created extraordinary achievements in ordinary posts, and they have defended their families and the country without complaint. It is precisely because of them that we have a stable and harmonious life! Rui Yinchao, when the soldier is to the extreme, how can it not be admired? This is the "star" we should chase, salute!