Recently, the Central Military Commission issued a notice to commend 10 units and 19 individuals in the army to be awarded the "Four Iron" advanced unit model and the "Four Have" outstanding individual model. The equipment "expert" of a certain unit of the Strategic Support Force - Gao Yuhua, the first-class sergeant commander of the Fourth Engineering Maintenance Brigade, was commended as the first "four-have" outstanding individual model of the entire army and was the only "soldier king" selected by the entire army.
For 32 years, Gao Yuhua, the first-class sergeant commander of the first squadron and fourth team of a brigade of the PLA Strategic Support Force, is proficient in the operation and maintenance of more than 50 types of equipment. He served as a trainer in the theater (military region) 15 times, brought out more than 500 business backbones, and won the first prize of outstanding non-commissioned officers in the entire army twice. He is a well-deserved soldier king.
"Old high, really high"
Pick up wrench to repair the engine, wear gloves to turn on the bulldozer, fiddle with power transmission lines, and computer programming... In the eyes of comrades, there is no work that the old squad leader Gao Yuhua can't do.
A few years ago, a large crawler excavator imported from abroad "stayed" during construction. Seeing that the power equipment could not move, the helpless maintenance team invited local maintenance masters. Unexpectedly, the engine was disassembled and assembled three times within five days, and the excavator was still motionless except for the thick smoke, which made the maintenance master who quoted a quotation of 5,000 yuan very embarrassed.
Gao Yuhua, who had never fiddled with imported equipment, sighed while sighing that the maintenance cost was high, while staying by the side to "steal the teacher and learn skills." After figuring out the engine disassembly procedures and parts locations, Gao Yuhua boldly proposed to give himself a try, because he felt that the principles should be similar no matter what machine the machine is.
In the following days, Gao Yuhua spent all his time on this machine except eating and sleeping. Three days later, the crawler excavator, which was well-explained by Gao Yuhua, started and moved forward in front of everyone's eyes, returning to its due state.
"It is because of excessive carbon accumulation, which causes incomplete combustion of diesel, and the equipment protection program is started, resulting in shutdown." Gao Yuhua explained that after cleaning, the cost did not exceed one hundred yuan.
The repairman, who was originally a little embarrassed, showed an expression of admiration at this time, gave Gao Yuhua a thumbs up and said, "Old Gao, it's really high."
Old Gao, it's really high. There have been various "legends" about Gao Yuhua's troops.
Last year, the brigade service guaranteed that a sealed excavator only emitted smoke and did not move. After inspection by the local repair shop, it was considered a problem with the transmission , so the disassembly fee was 7,000 yuan, and repair was calculated as a money. When the two sides bargained, Gao Yuhua happened to come to do the business. He turned around the excavator several times, found a sledgehammer and gently tapped the brake pads. The restarted excavator "roared" and drove out happily.
"It has been raining a lot recently, and the brake pads are rusted and locked to death." Gao Yuhua, who had a calm face, explained to his comrades.
Soon, the legend of Gao Yuhua's "one hammer is worth 7,000 yuan" spread throughout the military camp, but Lao Gao himself insisted that this was just a very ordinary accumulation of experience and "not that mysterious at all."
In fact, in Lao Gao's eyes, the equipment and facilities are all their own comrades. After working hard for a long time, you can understand what they are saying.
There is a "main battle" diesel engine in Gao Yuhua's unit, with tens of thousands of parts. Gao Yuhua has to lead a shift to "break the machine open" every time he repairs. The whole process takes four or five days. Lao Gao believes that if precise repairs can be achieved and "major surgery" becomes "minimally invasive surgery", it will save both time and trouble.
searched the information and asked experts. Gao Yuhua finally figured out the method of "seizure to identify faults". By using his modified medical stethoscope, he quickly identified and solved problems accurately, and achieved a success rate of diesel engine maintenance reaching 100%.
Gao Yuhua gave equipment "visit"
"Learn the same, become the same, it's really amazing"
Rome was not built in one day, and Gao Yuhua's unique skills were not practiced in one day. Over the past 30 years, Gao Yuhua has participated in national defense construction dozens of times, participated in the compilation of 10 professional textbooks, summarized more than 10 experience in mechanical equipment maintenance, and explored more than 30 methods of rapid emergency repair.
Everyone who is familiar with Gao Yuhua knows that he is a person who loves to think about technology.
During a mechanical failure repair, Gao Yuhua found that the pressure reducing valve seat of the diesel engine high-pressure oil pump is damaged more frequently. It turned out that when my comrades disassembled the pressure reducing valve seat, they lacked special disassembly tools, and the pressure reducing valve seat was worn out and unusable after disassembly and assembly several times.
"If you really fight, it will not only affect the disassembly efficiency, but also a high loss rate of can easily cause parts shortages." Gao Yuhua decided to invent a simple, lightweight and practical special disassembly tool.
Lao Gao and several comrades worked hard for half a month, and they really figured out the portable disassembly pressure reducing valve seat wrench. After use, the disassembly time was shortened from 2 minutes to 10 seconds, and the average life of the pressure reducing valve seat was extended by 2 years.
During the epidemic last year, Gao Yuhua, who returned to the team on vacation, needed to be quarantined for 15 days. He seized the time to start learning the new distribution cabinet maintenance.
As a common equipment for power supply and distribution major, distribution cabinets are easy to learn and difficult to master. There are dozens of wiring methods alone. If you are not careful, it will affect the entire power supply system .
Although he is an old maintenance technician, Gao Yuhua was also a little scared when he got the instructions for the new distribution cabinet - all of them were in English. Relying on his mobile phone to search for words, Gao Yuhua took the instruction manual. In 15 days, Lao Gao not only mastered all the wiring methods of this distribution cabinet, and completed the disassembly and assembly of the cabinet body independently, but also wrote down thick study notes.
"Old Gao is the same, he is the same, it is so amazing. Although we are learning power supply and distribution, there are not many people who have independently completed the disassembly and assembly." After watching Gao Yuhua's learning results demonstration, the team leader Chen Jiajun couldn't help but sigh.
learning is the norm for Gao Yuhua.
A small notebook as big as a palm and a ballpoint pen with a finger length are his learning tools. Whenever there are problems that cannot be solved on the spot or new knowledge is learned, he will write them down in the notebook and draw a horizontal line to solve a problem.
Once, the company suddenly lost power. Gao Yuhua, who was on vacation, guided his comrades to inspect and repair it by video on his mobile phone, while asking everyone to sort out the lines and operating methods on the notebook, and solved the problem in three or five minutes.
When Gao Yuhua was transferred from the company, the company instructor asked him to leave his notebook: "Lao Gao, this is not only a maintenance diagnosis, but also a living textbook to educate everyone."
As our army's equipment automation and informatization level is getting higher and higher, Gao Yuhua is also constantly improving himself. He not only learned by himself to obtain a college diploma, but also worked hard to learn computer programming and automation operations.
College student soldier Li Mingyang and Gao Yuhua had a gentleman agreement. He taught Lao Gao to program, and Lao Gao taught him diesel engines. Two years later, Gao Yuhua participated in the then Guangzhou Military Region single-install terminal standardization competition and reached the last level: automatic operation. Everyone believes that Gao Yuhua, who has a junior high school education, is not a match for college non-commissioned officers who have directly recruited the army.
Unexpectedly, Gao Yuhua finally won with a slight advantage with his outstanding performance in remote control and maintenance and stood on the podium of the championship.
Gao Yuhua teaches
"Cultivating a champion is more fulfilling than winning a championship by yourself"
With his superb skills, Gao Yuhua was once a famous "members and masters" and "award-winning masters", but these old people have less and less "harvested".
"I, Gao Yuhua, are covered in iron and can't get a few nails. Cultivating talents is the key, and cultivating champions is more fulfilling than winning championships by yourself." Gao Yuhua admitted that in recent years, he has focused his main energy on cultivating talents for the army and giving young soldiers more opportunities to grow.
In 2012, the former Guangzhou Military Region specially approved the establishment of the "Gao Yuhua Studio", with the purpose of playing the special role of "military expert". From then on, Lao Gao has been thinking about how to maximize the effectiveness of the studio.
"With a studio, there is a platform. It is difficult for people who engage in technology to communicate, learn, and practice together. It is difficult not to spark it." Under Gao Yuhua's driving, the aggregation effect of the studio was quickly formed, and technical talents from various fields were attracted together, making the studio a "academic base" of the entire unit for a time.
Just attracting talents is not enough. Gao Yuhua hopes to make the studio a "innovation incubator" and cultivate more "Gao Yuhua". Whether it is a cadre, a soldier, a veteran or a novice, as long as you have your own "strange ideas" and your own "unique skills", you can operate and practice here to show your skills.
Recruiter Lai Nansheng usually likes to think. Once when he was training in a diesel engine, he found that every time he cleaned, the filter was left. Lai Nansheng thought that he could use atmospheric pressure to suck out the bottom filter. Gao Yuhua was very pleased after hearing his thoughts. The master and apprentice tried hundreds of times and finally solved this problem.
Gao Yuhua's apprentices all know that Lao Gao's teaching has three weird things: one is that there is no lesson plan to directly talk, the second is that there is no time to talk casually, and the third is that the student teacher will say it together.
Once, in the professional classroom of diesel engines, Lao Gao wrote 17 words on the blackboard: How to use diesel engines, how to repair them if they are broken, and how to maintain them after repairing them. "Today we will understand these three issues." If you don't talk about big principles and do things, you just draw pictures and explain them, which are easy to understand, accurate and efficient, and officers and soldiers can understand them at a glance and learn them at a glance.
"It's a pleasure to listen to the class of the class leader Gao." Sergeant Xiao Benhong said that every time Gao Yuhua's lectures are simple and easy to understand, the principles are concise and concise. From the principle to the operation, you can interrupt any time or even ask repeatedly until you figure it out. "He encouraged us to ask him questions. He is happier than anyone else."
As "Gao Yuhua Studio" becomes more and more famous, Lao Gao found that just by teaching his disciples face to face, it is impossible to meet the actual needs of the army. Only by writing the experience accumulated over the years into a book can more officers and soldiers be benefited.
The third-level sergeant Geng Zhigang, as Lao Gao's apprentice, also participated in the manual writing. He remembered that over the years, Lao Gao bought more than 600 professional books at his own expense and wrote more than 400,000 words of notes. After the
manual is completed, Gao Yuhua constantly solicits everyone's opinions and modifys the content. Whenever the equipment is updated and iterated, Lao Gao will also "upgrade" the manual. In the company library, the reporter saw that these six professional manuals with illustrations, texts and forms had long been read and curled.
Gao Yuhua (middle) is analyzing the equipment structure for his comrades
"Lao Gao belongs to the army, and then to our family."
As a first-class sergeant chief, Gao Yuhua could have officially retired when he had served for 30 years, but he could be postponed twice, so that his military service reached 32 years.
Soldiers who don’t want to be generals are not good soldiers. In fact, Lao Gao had three chances to increase by , but by chance, it was not realized due to various reasons. Gao Yuhua, who was a little disappointed, decided to retire and go home at the end of the year.
Unexpectedly, after the illiterate old mother learned the news, she specially asked someone to write a long letter to Gao Yuhua. In the letter, my mother listed the honors and achievements he had obtained in the army and told him that all this was the result of the army's cultivation.
"If you don't promote it, you can't contribute to the army?" After thinking it through, Gao Yuhua made up his mind: "Since you can't be a general, then we should be a good soldier."
32, in the blink of an eye, Gao Yuhua fulfilled his promise with his actions: not only became a good soldier, but also a "soldier king".
"As long as the organization doesn't drive me away, I will continue to work." In March this year, Gao Yuhua wrote the second application for postponement of service. There is no other choice for postponing service at
. On the contrary, Gao Yuhua, who has unique skills, is a "hot commodity" in the eyes of many local repair companies. Before he was about to retire, a business owner once said that as long as Gao Yuhua nodded and was willing to open an automobile repair shop with him, not only did he not want him to pay a penny, but "the guaranteed salary for a year is five times that of the army."
Gao Yuhua smiled at this.
At the end of 2019, Gao Yuhua faced the first delay in service, and his wife Yang Junhua was hospitalized for surgery. But at this moment, the unit's diesel engine failed and could not work normally. The maintenance technicians tried their best but still did not troubleshoot the fault. The unit notified him to rush to the scene to "extinguish the fire" that day.
On one hand is the lover who needs to be taken care of, and on the other hand, the troops need to be carried out urgent tasks. Gao Yuhua made a decision repeatedly, or to start the train back to the military camp after explaining the situation to his wife. After fighting all night, the diesel engine regained its vitality. Gao Yuhua also received a text message from his wife: "Yuhua, the operation is successful, don't worry about me!"
At this moment, Gao Yuhua felt both guilty and relieved.
In November 2020, the unit was facing adjustment and reform. The unit leader found Gao Yuhua, who had been postponed for one year: "Lao Gao, you are about to retire. The unit respects your personal wishes. But as the top technical expert in the unit, you are proficient in more than ten professional skills. The unit's development achievements over the years are inseparable from your hard work. We still hope you stay for a few more years."
Gao Yuhua, who agreed to call his wife in the evening, talked about this matter hesitantly. The understanding Yang Junhua told him: "I support you, your greater responsibility lies with the army."
Later, someone asked Yang Junhua why? She smiled and said, "Lao Gao belongs to the army, and then we belong to our family."
(Chen Bing Yi Xin)
Source: National Defense Times
Editor: Qiu Hu
Editor: Xu Xiaojuan
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