The suitability of the future soldier or sailor for military service is determined by the draft and medical commission of the military enlistment office. But not only them. Careful selection of new recruits is also carried out by "buyers" who have arrived from the units. Often claiming that the best troops in the world are those where they serve, officers and warrant officers take the recruit, not always taking into account his desire and talents.
There is a contract!
To "cure" the modern Russian army, which was pretty ruined and beaten at the end of the last century, and to attract into the troops people shooting from machine guns not under duress, but voluntarily and skillfully, only the contract service introduced not so long ago is capable of it.
It is the contractors, already adults and past urgent, called to return the country's armed forces to their former glory, attractiveness and prestige. First of all, this applies to the airborne and border troops, intelligence, marines and special forces. Serving in them is considered a kind of familiarization with the military elite, so not everyone is taken there.
As the head of the defense department, Sergei Shoigu, said, the army should be equipped either entirely from contract soldiers or from conscripts called up for five years.
However, choosing troops, the conscript needs to focus not only on ostentatious beauty and rating. In the end, each genus or species has its obvious pluses and camouflaged cons. And if, for example, you were engaged in basketball or volleyball and are very tall, then as you do not ask, you will not be sent to the tank troops or to the submarine. Exclusively due to growth.
Army at Home
Having faced the choice “Where to go to serve?”, It’s easier not to wait for a happy chance in uniform, but to use the skills acquired at home. For example, you love technology and have the appropriate rights. So, you can easily ask for the same tankers, for automobile troops, or for the navy. For those who are thoroughly versed in radio and computers, there will probably be a suitable vacancy in the communications forces. For young people who have successfully mastered a parachute in a flying club and practiced martial arts, the very place in the airborne forces. Those who have learned to conquer rock climbing walls or even rocks well will be happy in the mountain rifle units of the ground forces. Having decided after becoming a reserve officer to become a civil aviation pilot, it is better to serve, of course, in the Air Force.
By the way, sometimes military enlistment offices meet the wishes of the draftees and leave them near the house. This is done more often for family reasons, say, in case of illness of the parents or the presence of their own family with the child. But in this case, the young soldier must be prepared to send far from those troops into which he hoped to get. For example, if a guy living in Yekaterinburg was preparing to become a paratrooper or a sailor, he definitely won’t succeed. Indeed, the landing training unit closest to the land capital of the Urals is located in the Omsk Region. And in Yekaterinburg, he can only remain a military chemist, railwayman or signalman.
The Office of the General Staff, which is responsible for organizing the draft, invited the Minister of Defense to return to the ex-territorial system and send recruits away from their region.
Remember about Dynamo
Speaking of the draft and evaluation of the troops, it is worth immediately separating the modern army from the one that until 1992 was called the "Soviet". Even the now all-powerful NATO bloc was afraid of her, and she never knew about the shortage of soldiers. They did not call everyone in a row, including patients and former criminals. On the contrary, for her, replenishment was carefully selected and well prepared, through the system of sports schools of the Dynamo society and DOSAAF clubs.
And the answer to the amateurish question "Where is the service better?" many new recruits of the 70-80s gave independently and long before receiving the agenda. Therefore, 18-year-old Soviet boys, especially those who grew up in villages and had already managed to pump up muscles in physical work, entered the troops confidently and prepared. A very serious incentive for the desire to serve was the opportunity to get benefits when entering a good university. For example, in one of the three legal institutes of the country, where the path was closed to a simple graduate of a secondary Soviet school. Now, such benefits, unfortunately, have almost disappeared.
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