Chapter 308: The First Platoon of the Army

Chapter 308: The First Platoon of the Army

The transition from the kitchen row to the new central kitchen model is a relatively large change, requiring the renovation of the kitchen and the rearrangement of work tasks.

It will take at least half a month to complete all the procedures, and at the fastest it will take at least a week to get things on track.

Chen Jun decided to inspect again after the completion. Now the work has been temporarily handed over to the deputy company commander of the support company, who will personally preside over the transformation of the kitchen squad.

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Xu Zhiqiang, Chen Jun, Shi Jin and his party came to the "supply platoon".

Previously, the supply platoon had only forty people, ranking second to last among the platoons in the support company, with only ten more people than the medical platoon.

However, there was a big change after the expansion, and the number of people jumped to sixty.

Climbed from the last to the front.

Because fuel is the bulk of the mechanized troops' needs, two fuel squads simply cannot handle the fuel supply for eight companies, so a fuel squad was specially added.

There are a total of thirty soldiers in the three fuel squads, and they are now operating relatively stably.

Chen Jun visited the fuel squad in detail, took a look at their work logs, and asked the soldiers in each squad about the relevant situation.

The problems found still exist, but they are much better than in other platoons and companies.

They are all minor issues.

For example, if the refueling truck and the oil tanker truck are in good working order, there will be no problems under normal circumstances. However, as long as one of the trucks breaks down, it will affect the fuel supply.

If a company fails to replenish fuel in time, normal training will be delayed.

In order to solve this small problem, Chen Jun decided to add more vehicles on the original basis so that the fuel team would have enough surplus vehicles.

Even if two or three vehicles break down at the same time, it will not affect normal training.

Everything in the pilot combined battalion is still in the exploratory stage. It is normal that the expenses are much higher than those of conventional troops. Chen Jun feels that his superiors should not have any objections.

In addition, there were a series of minor problems, which Chen Jun asked Shi Jin to record in detail.

After finding time to solve the minor problems later, Shi Jin, the battalion sergeant, will be responsible for the execution. Chen Jun himself will be able to relax more easily, and Shi Jin's voice in the battalion will also be further enhanced.

Let all the soldiers in the battalion deeply realize that non-commissioned officers are still officers, no matter how big or small.

Next to the fuel squad is the ammunition squad, and there is also a supplies squad that provides various miscellaneous items to the entire battalion. The situation is even better than that of the fuel squad.

The nature of the work of these two shifts does not require any urgency.

All are supplied once and used for a long time.

After each company sent the list of required ammunition and supplies to the battalion headquarters for approval, each company drove over to pick them up with the approval documents.

These two shifts only need to receive the documents and count the corresponding items, and each company is responsible for the transportation.

It's equivalent to a warehouse manager, not a very demanding job.

Even if the goal is to protect the eight companies of the entire battalion, only two fully staffed squads of ten people are needed, which is more than enough to handle the task, and the workload is relatively light.

Chen Jun only told the two squad leaders that the registration of incoming and outgoing warehouses must be detailed and that they must not keep any bad or confusing accounts. There was basically nothing else to say.

"Aren't there only fifty people? Where did the other ten go?"

Chen Jun walked around the supply platoon and found that even including the platoon leader, there were still nine soldiers he had not seen.

"Reporting to the deputy battalion commander, the supply platoon is special. Its supply of materials is unstable."

Company commander Xu Zhiqiang quickly explained: "For example, if there are many companies shooting today, the ammunition squad may be busy. If there are several companies doing training at the same time tomorrow, the demand for fuel may be relatively large.

Moreover, the work of each class is technical in nature, and if personnel are transferred from other classes to go on business trips, accidents may occur due to their unfamiliarity with the equipment.

So in order to eliminate the possibility of such accidents, the platoon leader led a group of ten people to form an emergency team.

This emergency team is not responsible for a specific area, so they have enough time to learn the skills of each team. In this way, when needed, they can be mobilized at any time to fill the gap in temporary personnel. "

The ammunition squad needs to be familiar with various types of ammunition, and also need to know the storage and maintenance conditions of various ammunition such as bullets, artillery shells, grenades, rockets, etc.

The fuel team needs to be familiar with various refueling matters and the use of various storage and refueling equipment.

You also need to be familiar with the various supplies in the supply team.

If you are not familiar with these things, accidents may really happen during a temporary mission. Even something as small as sending the wrong ammunition or adding the wrong fuel will seriously affect training.

Therefore, it is indeed a very good solution to have a group of professionals to do the errands.

In order to solve the problem of difficulty in replenishing personnel in later generations, heavy armored combined brigades would set up an additional replenishment battalion, which was filled with soldiers proficient in all professions. No matter which battalion was short of manpower, they could immediately send people to fill the gap.

Although there is a huge gap in the number of people between the two, they have the same purpose.

The effect is almost the same!
The characteristics of combined arms forces' coordinated operations and the different areas in which each branch is familiar with mean that personnel replenishment is bound to be a big problem.

How to quickly replenish the missing professional personnel is the most difficult problem facing the combined forces.

Before Chen Jun even got involved, the supply platoon was able to find a way to solve the problem on their own, and the solution was quite good, which made Chen Jun very satisfied.

After all, a unit cannot rely on just one person, and the best solution is for everyone to work together to find ways to improve.

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The refinement of the supply platoon was the easiest. Chen Jun basically just walked around without having to think too much, which made him feel a lot better.

But then when we went to the maintenance team for inspection, we found another tricky problem.

When Chen Jun was making the plan, he considered it from a conventional perspective and believed that the damage to the vehicle during daily training would not be serious.

So the maintenance platoon only has fifty people, and including the platoon leader, there are only fifty-one people in total.

However, reality is very different from imagination.

The combined battalion has been conducting intensive training this year. The intensity of various trainings is very high, which is a great test for the people and the vehicles as well.

Especially the combined battalion is a fully mechanized force, so as long as the troops move, the wheels will move with them.

Under high-intensity training of at least ten hours a day, even if military-grade quality is a guarantee of quality, the vehicles of each company cannot withstand such manufacturing.

The result is that as the training continues, more and more cars break down.

At the beginning, each company had spare vehicles. The spare vehicles were used to replace the broken vehicles, and the broken vehicles were sent to the maintenance platoon, so the training could keep up.

Because the companies did not have such urgent needs, the maintenance platoon could barely carry out the repairs.

But it only lasted less than two months.

The maintenance platoon's repair shop was filled with broken-down cars, and even the playground outside was full, all of which were sent by various companies waiting to be repaired.

At this time, the backup vehicles of each company were insufficient, resulting in a lack of vehicles available for training.

Even if minor faults are overcome and vehicles are still used, as long as they can still run, they will continue to be used on the training ground. Less than 70% of the vehicles in each company are used for training support.

It seems that normal training cannot be carried out. If this continues, the situation will become more and more serious.

Chen Jun was not in the camp at the time. In order to ensure that the combined battalion under his charge would not be dragged down by such a small incident, Gao Cheng deployed his own forces for the first time more than four months ago.

He personally called his father and told him about the urgent dilemma facing the maintenance team.

Gao's father attached great importance to the pilot combined battalion and agreed without hesitation. Within a week, he selected 30 professional maintenance personnel from various places and sent them to the maintenance platoon to expand it into three squads.

The maintenance platoon expanded from five squads to eight squads, and the number of people increased dramatically to eighty.

It became the largest platoon in the support company.

It is also the platoon with the largest number of people in the entire group.

The thirty maintenance personnel drawn from various military units all have top-notch skills and can repair tanks, armored vehicles and various military vehicles.

It really solved the problem effectively and the accumulated faulty vehicles were quickly reduced.

As a result, the 7th Steel Battalion was able to train normally.

However, the training dilemma was indeed solved, but at the same time a new problem arose.

Same problem as the kitchen staff.

That means the maintenance team needs to work at a high intensity. Normally, they spend more than eleven hours a day repairing cars, and when the training volume is large, the standard is more than fourteen hours.

It can be said……

Over the past three months, everyone in the maintenance team has spent their time repairing cars, except for eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping.

If this high-intensity work is not maintained, the number of broken-down vehicles will begin to increase gradually.

Only by maintaining this high-intensity work can we maintain a relative balance with the faulty vehicles that occur during the daily training of the 7th Steel Battalion.

Although soldiers are able to endure hardships and work hard, there is nothing wrong with working more for the sake of training results.

But what Chen Jun wants is a healthy, virtuous cycle combined battalion model, so that it can be promoted and become a benchmark for the entire army.

This kind of exploitative and workaday model will definitely cause problems over time.

Company commander Xu Zhiqiang knew it, and Gao Cheng also knew it.

However, they could not think of a good solution, nor could they continue to ask their superiors to add more people just because the soldiers' workload was heavy.

The maintenance platoon already has eighty people, and if we add more, it will become a maintenance company.

So the whole camp knew about this situation, and since there was no way to solve it, they could only maintain the status quo and ensure training first.

Now that Chen Jun has discovered the situation, it is impossible for him to continue.

He must solve this problem!
What is a pilot combined battalion?

It means constantly finding problems during training, finding ways to solve and improve existing problems, and helping subsequent troops avoid various minefields.

This is the significance of the pilot!

"Since there is no way to increase manpower, we can only find ways to make the maintenance model more scientific and work in a smarter way to reduce the workload."

What Chen Jun said was easy to understand, but Xu Zhiqiang and Shi Jin didn't understand.

exactly.

I don't know what is the smarter way.

"Deputy Battalion Commander, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. I just don't know what to do. I've been thinking about it for several months, but I just can't come up with any ideas. I have such heavy dark circles under my eyes, and this matter has kept me up late at night."

Company commander Xu Zhiqiang laughed at himself, not afraid that Chen Jun would scold him for being useless. He had really been tormented enough and was so tired that he didn't care about anything else.

"How science works? I understand all these words, but I really don't understand how they are put together. However..."

Shi Jin laughed and said, "I believe that as long as the deputy battalion commander is here, there will be no problem that cannot be solved. You will definitely be able to think of a solution."

"Yes, yes, yes, deputy battalion commander, you are extraordinary. You are the most outstanding young cadre in the entire army. If you can't solve the problem, then anyone who comes will just be left staring in despair." Xu Zhiqiang followed suit and flattered him.

"Okay, both of you stop blowing. If you keep blowing, I'm going to float up into the sky."

Chen Jun smiled and glared at the two of them, then he said after a moment of silence: "You know what, I have a good idea that may be able to solve the problem."

"really?"

Xu Zhiqiang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Chen Jun expectantly and said, "If this problem can be solved, I will definitely be able to sleep well tonight. My dark circles will finally disappear."

"My idea is this..."

Chen Jun organized his thoughts a little and began to speak eloquently.

The gist of it is that Chen Jun checked every part of the maintenance platoon, checked the work logs and related records, and discovered a very critical piece of information.

That is the maintenance mode of the maintenance platoon, which is a very conventional parallel type.

There was no division of labor among the eight squads. They just followed the common military model of eating from a big bucket, and everyone repaired vehicles together.

The line goes on like this from the beginning to the end, one car after another lines up for repair.

Moreover, if a vehicle in each company breaks down and cannot be driven over, it needs a repair license to be driven over and towed back, and whoever is free will go.

At first glance, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. This is how the troops work together and rest together after the work is done.

However, this traditional big bucket meal model actually has many disadvantages and will greatly reduce work efficiency.

As work efficiency decreases, working hours will increase sharply.

Eventually it became what it is now, where everyone works long hours every day, no one is slacking off, but work efficiency is not high.

Chen Jun’s solution is to make adjustments in these two major aspects.

The first step was to get rid of the big bucket meal model and conduct a unified survey of the 80 maintenance workers to identify the areas in which each of them was best skilled.

Those who are good at repairing tanks are grouped together, those who are good at repairing armored vehicles are grouped together, those who are good at repairing off-road vehicles are grouped together, and those who are good at repairing various military vehicles are grouped together.

After the division of labor, the maintenance technicians will each repair the car they are best at, and the maintenance speed will definitely be greatly increased.

Assume that the number of faulty vehicles remains unchanged.

The faster the repair, the shorter the working time.

After taking this strong medicine, Chen Jun had another strong medicine.

That is, from these eight teams, two teams are specially selected as outbound teams, which are responsible for outbound maintenance. Cars with minor faults can be repaired on the spot and no longer need to be towed back to the maintenance team, which can also save a lot of time.

Minor faults will be repaired quickly by dispatching personnel, while major faults will be brought back for special repair personnel.

Chen Jun believes that taking these two strong doses of medicine together and implementing this more scientific new working model will definitely give the maintenance platoon a new lease of life.

(End of this chapter)