Xu devoted himself to national defense

1988, Xu was admitted to Tianjin Institute of Communications Engineering of the People's Liberation Army with excellent results, realizing his long-cherished wish of dedicating himself to national defense. After graduation, he was assigned to a repair shop of an infantry regiment as a gun mechanic. Facing the challenge of the world military revolution, Xu based on his post, studied hard and practiced hard, and soon became the technical leader of the group army, completing the leap from what he learned in colleges and universities to what he actually engaged in. 1996 10, outstanding military officers in the military region may be sent to receive missile professional training. He overcame professional blind spots, bravely climbed the technical peak, quickly mastered the knowledge of maintenance, repair and management of high-tech weapons and equipment, and completed the leap from general professional skills to high-tech professional skills. At the age of 27, Xu was appointed as the Acting Minister of the Equipment Department of the newly formed Army Missile Force and became the backbone of technical support for new equipment.

Behind its great power is the high requirement of high-tech equipment for technical support; Compared with traditional logistics support, equipment support plays an extremely important role in the front logistics support of future wars. Determined to pave the way for high-tech weapons to go to the battlefield, Xu postponed the wedding date and devoted himself to the work of forming combat effectiveness with new equipment. There is a file recording device on the missile chariot, which is similar to the "black box" on the plane. In professional training, the teacher only briefly introduced its name and purpose, but Xu was keenly aware of the importance of "black box". He consulted more than 200,000 words of data, demonstrated and analyzed millions of data, and finally mastered the "black box" data analysis method after repeated experiments of 10 sleepless nights.

1May, 1998, an experimental base held a live-fire drill. With the commander's order, one missile spit fire and stabbed the "enemy plane." When the ninth missile was launched, there was a sudden abnormality. Xu quickly retrieved the "black box", immediately found the cause of the failure, ensured the smooth progress of the live-fire drill, and was highly praised by the leaders of the Central Military Commission.

After the new equipment is incorporated into the army, there is no ready-made experience in static storage, dynamic management and daily maintenance. Improving the technical support capability of military equipment as soon as possible has become an urgent task to accelerate the formation of combat effectiveness of new equipment. Xu led technicians to write more than 600,000 words of Technical Maintenance Regulations for New Equipment, which was designated as training materials for this kind of equipment by the headquarters. He organized and compiled a compilation of difficult problems of new equipment, answered the problems often encountered in technical support of this kind of equipment, and applied for the military scientific and technological progress award; The comprehensive information management system he presided over realized the standardization and scientificity of new equipment management. The new equipment simulation teaching system and multimedia demonstration system developed by him have been popularized in the exhibition of scientific and technological achievements in Nanjing Military Region, which has effectively promoted the improvement of military training quality. In the past two years, this newly formed high-tech unit has successfully completed a number of major military tasks by relying entirely on its own support forces.