Chapter 307 Solving the "big trouble" of the support company
Tuo Yonggang already has the rank of captain, and is more than qualified to serve as the deputy company commander of the 7th Company. Moreover, the deputy company commander is not the company chief, which will not affect his leadership of the special operations platoon.
The vacant platoon leader position in the special operations platoon can be taken by anyone in the special operations platoon.
You must know that the special operations platoon is an all-officer platoon, and it is the only grassroots all-officer platoon in the entire Capital Theater, and even in the entire army.
This is a privilege only enjoyed by the A Battalion directly under the General Staff. If it is applied to grassroots units, it would be a dimensionality reduction attack.
Chen Jun promoted Tuo Yonggang to be the deputy company commander, hoping to make the Seventh Company the best armored special forces. However, he was unsure whether he could succeed.
Everything can only wait until half a year later!
The intensive repair work of the Special 7th Company was steadily completed, and Chen Jun then came to the support company with the largest number of people and the largest area in the park.
In the initial configuration plan of the engineering support company, the number of people in this company reached 230.
A complete reinforcement company.
Later, the 7th Steel Battalion was officially established and expanded, adding three fully-staffed companies and a missile platoon, which increased its size by one third.
In order to continue to carry out the corresponding support work, the support company also made replenishments at the same time.
Today's support company is even larger, with more than a hundred vehicles of various types and a total number of people exceeding three hundred.
This is enough to match the strength of three regular companies, and it can hardly be described as a reinforced company.
It is no exaggeration to describe it as "quasi-battalion level".
Chen Jun had never had in-depth experience at the grassroots level before, and he only had a number about the number of people and equipment in the support company, and did not think there were many problems.
But now that I have personally gone to the support company, my first impression is not very good.
Because Chen Jun had too much personal work to do, he had been running around in the past six months and had basically not participated in any work meetings in the camp.
This resulted in the new company commander Chen Jun being unfamiliar with almost everyone except those he was familiar with.
The commander of the support company is one of them.
When I saw the company commander Xu Zhiqiang, who was only about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and looked gentle, but his dark circles could not be hidden.
Chen Jun knew at a glance that something must have gone wrong with the support company.
And the problem is not small.
Otherwise, given the current vigorous and prosperous atmosphere of the 7th Steel Battalion, it is impossible for the company commander of the support company to look so haggard and exhausted from overdraft.
The reason why one becomes so haggard is either due to insufficient personal ability or too heavy a workload.
There are only two possibilities.
Because the officers who are able to enter the 7th Steel Battalion, especially the company commander, are all ambitious and will not cheat or slack off.
"Captain Xu, you don't look very energetic, are you sick?"
Chen Jun could see that Xu Zhiqiang was not sick, but in order to give him a way out and explain the reason, he made up an excuse for him.
"Reporting to the deputy battalion commander, no, I'm not sick. Don't look at me because I'm thin. In fact, I'm in good health. As the saying goes, being thin means thin bones and flesh. I work like a beast. No matter how intense the work is, I can hold on."
Although Xu Zhiqiang looks like he is exhausted, his mental state is actually quite good. He is a very optimistic person with high IQ and EQ.
The last sentence he said was enough to highlight his intelligence.
He not only showed Chen Jun his determination and expressed his enthusiasm for work, but also very cleverly explained it from the side.
The reason why he has serious dark circles under his eyes and looks very tired is because of the high intensity of his work and the hard work he put in.
This kind of expression using suggestive words is several levels higher than directly complaining.
As a leader, Chen Jun can get answers and have better space to handle the matter, so he won't be forced to lose face for a while.
After all, the work intensity of the support company is too high and beyond the normal range.
That is definitely not the fault of the subordinate units, but because there is a problem with the management of the superiors and they did not make good arrangements, which led to this situation.
"This Captain Xu is quite interesting." Chen Jun said inwardly.
Originally, he had no impression of Xu Zhiqiang, but it was Captain Xu's high emotional intelligence answer this time that made Chen Jun immediately have a good impression of him.
Superiors like subordinates who are smart, sensible and have high IQ.
"At first glance, Xu Zhiqiang's ability should be fine. He was able to endure it until he vomited bitterness, which shows that there is indeed a big problem. Now that he is here, we must solve it. We must not leave any hidden dangers for a comprehensive inspection a year later."
Chen Jun pondered quickly in his mind and made a quick decision.
He gave the instruction in a clear and concise manner: "Captain Xu, I think you already know that I am here to solve the problems of each company.
Since there is a problem with your support company, take me with you to take a good look.
Don’t be afraid. I won’t hold you accountable for hiding it. Just take me to where the problem is and we will solve it together.”
"Yes, deputy battalion commander."
Xu Zhiqiang looked at Chen Jun in surprise, as if he didn't expect Chen Jun to be so frank. Then he laughed, and his spirits improved.
After replying straightforwardly, he walked in front to lead the way and took Chen Jun to visit the support company.
The support company, consisting of the cooking platoon, supply platoon, maintenance platoon, medical platoon and engineering platoon, was responsible for almost all the logistics work of the 7th Steel Battalion.
While ensuring the lower limit of the 7th Steel Battalion, it also supported the upper limit of the 7th Steel Battalion.
This means that if the 7th Steel Battalion wants to unleash its strongest strength, the support company must be perfect and there must be no hidden dangers.
In order to thoroughly investigate the support company, Chen Jun was extremely alert and did not miss any details.
Led by the company commander Xu Zhiqiang, Chen Jun and his team first came to the kitchen squad, which is the most important place for the soldiers to inspect.
Because we have to ensure food for eight companies, the support intensity has been greatly increased.
After the expansion of three more companies, the size of the cooking platoon also changed, from five squads to eight squads.
However, due to the limited number of personnel, the 7th Steel Battalion was seriously overstaffed.
If we can’t reduce the number of combatants, we can only control the logistics.
The cooking platoon was expanded into eight squads, and three more companies were added that required logistical supplies, but in the end not even one cook was sent down.
In the past, there were nine people in a team to ensure three meals a day for a company.
The remaining platoon leader and four other cooks serve as material mobilization personnel, responsible for purchasing and distributing daily supplies.
Now it has been downgraded to a team of six people, and eight teams occupy 48 places.
The remaining platoon leader and one cook would be in charge of the kitchen platoon as before, responsible for distributing the necessary food to the eight companies.
The change in the organization of the kitchen platoon caused the people in the kitchen platoon to complain bitterly. The two people in charge of distributing supplies in the kitchen platoon had to work at their maximum intensity, and basically had no free time every day.
Even the fuel and food needed by the kitchen platoon were directly brought in by vehicles from the regiment.
But the factory is only responsible for delivering the ingredients to the kitchen, and the work of organizing, storing and placing the ingredients are all handled by the two of them.
The daily food and fuel for the eight companies are all measured in tons.
After storage, they need to be distributed and registered to ensure that there are no mistakes in each link.
Otherwise, if one company delivered an extra bag of rice and another company forgot to load the meat onto the truck, all these small things combined would be enough to paralyze the work of the kitchen platoon.
The two of them were exhausted at home, and the intensity of the support work they did outside was also high.
The workload that originally required ten people is now completed by five people, which means that the workload has doubled. The relaxed kitchen team has become a hard labor.
If it weren't for the first combined battalion in the entire army, the title of the pilot unit of the combined battalion in the entire army would have given the soldiers in the cooking platoon a heartfelt sense of honor and mission, supporting them in their selfless dedication.
If this happened in a restaurant outside, I'm afraid they would have quit long ago.
Captain Xu has severe dark circles under his eyes.
The biggest reason is that the cook platoon leader comes here to spit every day.
"As expected, if you don't go deep into the grassroots, you won't be able to find any problems. The workload of the kitchen team is so intense, but they dare not report it to their superiors. They must be afraid of being considered incompetent and worried about being transferred from the Seventh Steel Battalion, so they have been holding on.
You can hold on for a month or two, you can hold on for half a year or a year at the cost of your life, but this is not a long-term solution after all, the hidden mines will explode one day. "
After Chen Jun discovered the problem with the kitchen team, he pondered secretly and his face became serious.
Company commander Xu Zhiqiang did not report the problem when he discovered it, but instead led his soldiers to hold on. Chen Jun could understand his thinking.
After all, the threshold to enter the Seventh Steel Battalion is so high that it took a lot of effort to get in.
No one wants to be transferred and miss a great opportunity.
Now that the problem has been discovered, Chen Jun has to find a way to solve it, but how to solve it is really a little difficult.
As a battalion, even a reinforced battalion, the 7th Steel Battalion's number of over a thousand people is indeed a bit excessive.
There are only more than a thousand people in a group!
The number of people in the eight combat companies must not be reduced, as they are the most fundamental core of the combined battalion, so number control can only start from logistics.
While strictly controlling the number of people in the support company, the number of people has now exceeded 300.
It is highly unlikely that the superiors will be able to replenish the kitchen platoon with additional personnel, and asking other battalions to go on official business to help is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
If Chen Jun uses his thick skin to force it, he might be able to get the person down.
But the support company has only reached the first platoon. If there is a problem, we have to ask our superiors for help and find a way to get people. There are still four platoons waiting behind.
To get a glimpse of the whole picture.
The work intensity of each platoon is definitely very high. Every platoon has to go to the higher-ups to ask for people. After going through this process, at least hundreds of people will be added.
If the number of logistics personnel accounts for more than 400, it is infinitely close to half of the total force.
This configuration is definitely pathological.
Unhealthy.
After a very rational analysis, Chen Jun determined that in order to solve these problems of the logistics company, he could only make use of the glorious traditions of our older generation -
Find a way to overcome difficulties!
"What should we do?"
Chen Jun pondered for a long time and even stopped the follow-up inspection work. He focused on solving this problem and couldn't eat until it was solved.
After thinking hard for a long time, my hard work finally paid off.
Chen Jun actually came up with a solution.
Chen Jun thought of the chain hotels and restaurants in later generations. In order to control their costs and make the taste more uniform, they adopted a large-scale popularization of the operating model.
Central kitchen model!
This model was first born in the 1950s, when fast food chains such as McDonald's in the United States developed centralized procurement, centralized processing, and centralized distribution, which greatly improved the production speed.
By the 1970s and 1980s, the central kitchen model had matured and began to spread around the world.
China was relatively backward in the 1990s. The central kitchen model had already emerged, but it was not very popular and basically belonged to a small group.
It’s not that we don’t have the money to do it, but that consumption cannot keep up, so the central kitchen model cannot be used at all.
The current difficulty facing the kitchen team is that they have enough food, equipment and facilities, but are seriously short of manpower.
The central kitchen operating model happens to be the best solution.
As long as we make corresponding adjustments to the troops' dining habits and their various fixed needs, we can definitely solve the problem satisfactorily.
Chen Jun locked himself in the office to tailor-make a central kitchen solution for him.
After another half day of hard writing, Chen Jun came up with a plan that he thought was perfectly suitable for the kitchen platoon, allowing the kitchen platoon to complete its support work excellently and reducing the cooks' workload by at least half.
After Chen Jun drove to the support platoon, he handed the paper full of plans to Xu Zhiqiang.
After reading the entire plan, Xu Zhiqiang's eyes widened.
I was completely shocked!
Chen Jun's central kitchen operation mode was completely beyond his imagination. In his opinion, it was simply a godly operation.
I have heard a lot of rumors about how awesome Chen Jun is, and this is the first time I feel how awesome Chen Jun is.
Xu Zhiqiang was truly convinced, wholeheartedly.
"Deputy Battalion Commander, your plan is amazing."
Xu Zhiqiang was amazed and praised it highly, saying: "We set up a central kitchen in the kitchen team, with eight pots working at the same time to process the food in a unified way.
By reducing the intermediate distribution and transportation time, the efficiency of personnel's concentrated work can be doubled, and the time required can definitely be reduced by more than half.
After the central kitchen completes the processing, each company sends a five-person team, who only need to deliver the meals to each company one hour in advance for heating, and then distribute the meals to the soldiers of each company.
After the food was distributed, the cooking teams of each company returned to the central kitchen to prepare ingredients for the next meal.
More than half of the intermediate processes were cut, which saved a lot of work and a lot of time, enough for us to rest and adjust.
The workers completed the work more outstandingly, but the manpower was less utilized. It's absolutely incredible. I can't help but accept it, haha."
The biggest problem was solved. Xu Zhiqiang was so excited that his face turned red with excitement.
(End of this chapter)