On April 11, the Rocket Force held a ceremony to award the ranks, and 106 "Missile Soldier Kings" were promoted to the highest rank of soldiers, the first-class sergeant major.
The military announced the names of 4 of the soldier kings, and the news reporter combed and found that Chen Junfeng was known as the trumpeter of "deaf and blind", Li Xiaomin was one of the first batch of non-commissioned officers of the conventional missile unit, Zhang Shiying refused the high-paid employment of the business owner 7 times, and the "drill king" Gu Hanchun invented the chiseling method that allowed a person to complete a shift a day's workload in 4 hours.
According to the "Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Noncommissioned Officer System" previously issued, there are 7 ranks of non-commissioned officers, namely junior non-commissioned officers (corporals, sergeants), intermediate non-commissioned officers (sergeant majors, fourth-level sergeant majors), and senior non-commissioned officers (third-level sergeant majors, second-level sergeant majors, and first-class sergeant majors). Among them, the first-class sergeant major, known as the "seventh-class non-commissioned officer", became the highest rank in the non-commissioned officer rank.
There is a saying in the army that the first-class sergeant major who is "king of soldiers" is less than the general, and should be similar to the panda. They have used twenty or thirty years of perseverance in different posts to take the soldiers to the extreme.
According to the military, the 106 people promoted on April 11 came from the front line of rocket force training launches, national defense construction, combat support and other fields. They have been rooted in the grass-roots level for many years, fighting for a long time in the most difficult environment and the most technologically advanced jobs, and each of them is a missile elite soldier who can "make a decision" in all fields.
According to the leaders of the rocket force organs, the senior non-commissioned officers of the rocket force specialize in high-precision missile specialties, are good at escorting the launch, can operate the supersize, can command the battle, can eliminate faults, and dare to make decisions when they find problems.
The reporter noted that the military media briefly introduced 4 typical first-class sergeant majors, namely Chen Junfeng, Gu Hanchun, Zhang Shiying, and Li Xiaomin.
In the northwest plateau, before a launch, Chen Junfeng, a comprehensive test technician of the technical battalion of a certain missile brigade, heard the abnormal sound of the instrument, resisted the question and proposed retesting and found the fault point to ensure the smooth flight of the missile.
Deep in the rock formation, Gu Hanchun, an engineering mechanic technician of an engineering unit, participated in major maintenance and support tasks more than 30 times, solved hundreds of equipment problems, and became the "first person" in the maintenance of trolleys.
In the processing workshop, Zhang Shiying, a special decoration technician of a certain regiment, processed and produced more than 10,000 pieces of missile parts, with a pass rate of 100 percent, and as the only non-commissioned officer member of the expert group, he carried out the launch exercise task, eliminated faults and solved difficult problems many times.
Li Xiaomin, commander of a certain missile brigade, said heartily: "Wearing the new military rank and shouldering the new mission, I will work harder and stronger, do my job well, and contribute to the construction of a powerful and modern rocket force." ”
In July 2015, People's Daily walked into an intercontinental strategic missile brigade of the Second Artillery Corps and, when introducing Chen Junfeng, called him a trumpeter who was "deaf and blind." In addition to the above-mentioned problems by listening to the abnormal sound of the instrument and finding the fault point, Chen Junfeng also has extraordinary "eye skills".
During a drill, in the face of the constant flickering of dozens of display lights on the missile launch controller, he keenly caught the order of the two lights turned upside down. A check, it turned out that the hair control station had a submerged channel. Chen Junfeng had a pair of sharp eyes and relieved the trouble in time. Experts sighed that decades later, the "Dongfeng Spirit" is still shining.
For Li Xiaomin, a reporter from the People's Liberation Army Life magazine interviewed him in 2016 and went to his office many times, but he could not find anyone, and the answers he got were "in the war room", "should be in the new operation greenhouse", "go to the camp training ground". It turned out that this "soldier head" who had been in the army for more than 20 years and had a longer military experience than the formation time of the army was closely investigating the "Measures for Strengthening the Professional Skills of Unit Trumpeters" at that time. Notably, he was also one of the first noncommissioned officers in the conventional missile forces.
As for Zhang Shiying, in August 2016, the military newspaper told a "small story" about him. "You have been working in the army for more than twenty years, and you have a unique job of welding. You come back, the annual salary of 200,000 is certainly no problem..." "Thank you for your kindness." I'm used to being in the army, so you better choose someone else. "Hanging up the phone of his former comrade-in-arms, Zhang Shiying, the second-level sergeant major of a certain repair plant of the Rocket Force, raised his welding gun as usual...
According to the military newspaper, Zhang Shiying declined the high-paying offer of local business owners 7 times. "People must have a conscience, and this skill is given by the troops, and no amount of money can be 'sold.'" In the past 22 years, he has studied and mastered the unique skills from general welding to gray cast iron welding, accumulatively processed tens of thousands of parts, trained hundreds of technical backbones to help bring out, and won the honors of "Second Artillery Special Equipment Skill and Technical Expert", "Outstanding Talent Award for Non-Commissioned Officers of the Whole Army", "Excellent Communist Party Member" and so on.
The military newspaper also noticed that Zhang Shiying's camouflage clothes were full of small holes in the sleeves and pants, and there were more than a dozen hot spots splashed on the camouflage shoes. Due to the "close contact" with the welding gun all year round, the face is often baked and peeled, so Zhang Shiying's face is often "one month white, one month black".
At the end of last year, the Rocket Force selected the "Top Ten Sharp Swordsmen". The opinion news reporter noted that Gu Hanchun, who is known as the "first person" in trolley maintenance and was promoted to the first class sergeant major today, is among them.
According to official disclosures, he was born in August 1973 in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, joined the army at the age of 20, won the first prize of the Outstanding Talent Award for Non-Commissioned Officers of the Whole Army, and was awarded the third class merit four times. For more than 20 years, he fought in the "Underground Dragon Palace", built a nest for the long sword of a big country, experienced dozens of life and death tests, and created dozens of national defense construction records.
As early as August 2009, the military newspaper had a special article reporting on the "diamond king" Gu Hanchun, saying that he could "use three purposes with one heart". The rock drill trolley used for national defense construction has 3 drill pipes, which require 3 people to operate, and they will reach in different directions at the same time like human arms. But a top-notch Gu Hanchun calmly pulled the operating lever, stunned that 3 five- or six-meter-long trolley drill pipes were "pointed" on the 3 coins scattered on the ground floor...
(Gu Hanchun)
In the past, the cannon was fired to drill the eye by the wind, and a person's workload for a few days was used to drill a rock trolley, that is, a few seconds of kung fu. However, if you encounter a chiseled eye on the intersection line of the angle, you still need to take manual work. Gu Hanchun took a reverse operation, so that the trolley arm extended forward close to the side wall. This new method of eye gouging is incredibly efficient: one person can complete the workload of the past day in 4 hours.
The reporter found that 3 years later, Gu Hanchun learned a new skill - computer-operated rock drilling trolley. I saw him click the mouse lightly, pull the joystick, wave the long work "giant arm", and quickly and accurately drill into the hard rock.
In the past, the construction was "gray and full of hand bubbles", but now as long as the measured drilling depth, rock hardness and other information are entered into the computer, the computer rock drilling trolley will automatically identify and quickly generate data reports, and the operator can easily manipulate the decisive rock formation. The reporter of the military newspaper saw at the scene that the officers and men used modern tools to sort out the uneven mao pit road into a smooth and bright cave wall.