You are in army now ... The army of the likely enemy "from the inside." Part one
The recruiter's speech was so sweet -
Rest, live and sing songs!
But ... now you, boy, in the army!
Yes, oh, oh, now you have joined the army!
(a variant of the translation of a fragment of a known composition of the Status Quo group)
Rest, live and sing songs!
But ... now you, boy, in the army!
Yes, oh, oh, now you have joined the army!
(a variant of the translation of a fragment of a known composition of the Status Quo group)
Yes, yes, of course, you were not mistaken, it will be about our "overseas partners", about the US Army. In connection with the next round of “increasing friendliness” in the world, we consider it possible and relevant to present an analysis of the situation in the troops of one of the main geostrategic opponents of Russia.
We immediately warn you that the presented material is based on American data, it will reflect the realities of the modern American army, presented directly by the American source, and therefore some points may not like part of the audience of our portal. However, if we removed all the unpleasant "roughness", then the objectivity of the proposed information would be lost, and therefore the purpose of the presentation would be lost (believe me, we already smoothed a lot, especially in the second part).
Let's start, perhaps, with the main, with a system of acquisition. People of different ages are going to serve in the US Army, to different positions, respectively, receiving different shoulder straps, but we will tell you about the usual way of an ordinary soldier.
One of the main categories of recruitment of the US Army is the usual young guys after 18 years from poor families, mostly from provincial cities (both white and African Americans, as well as people from Latin America, with the proportion of the latter constantly increasing).
If his parents cannot pay him for college, then a simple young American is looking for work, and if he is not, or she is not satisfied with him, or he has some other motives (for example, “a sense of patriotic duty”), then he goes to serve in the army.
Basically, there are soldiers going there who are mediocre enough to attend school, who have certain behavioral problems and with the police already in their youth, and are mostly not prone to intellectual activity.
The truth is frank "morons, damn it" (@ S. Lavrov) still do not get there, as well as drug addicts, as well as people who had become professional criminals. Still, a person with a criminal record may well become a US Army soldier (certainly not an officer, at least at the beginning of the service), especially if he was convicted under light articles (thefts without major damage and without the use of physical violence, carjacking, petty fraud, fights without murder, etc.).
Sometimes, oddly enough, but even right on the court, the convicted person is immediately offered to go to military service instead of the “jail time” (if before that the results of psychological testing showed professional fitness of the person for army service).
A special, very large, category of recruitment of the US army in recent years are foreigners who, after careful selection, sign a long-term contract for the sake of obtaining American citizenship for themselves and their families.
To get into the US Army to an ordinary American, he needs to contact a recruiting center, often mobile (as you know, people like this have recently appeared in the Russian army). We can say that in some ways its functions are similar to the Russian "military registration and enlistment offices".
True, in American recruitment points, officers, sergeants and soldiers on active service do not serve, but almost exclusively commissioned veterans and disabled people. So the state shows its concern for them, realizing that it is difficult for them to survive “in the civilian”, and so they remain useful for society and receive a normal salary (while its size increases in proportion to the number of recruits recruited).
Right in the recruitment point, the candidate undergoes a medical and psychological examination, passes all tests for free, and his dossier undergoes a preliminary online check in the special services. After all this, there is a “profile testing”, i.e. the general erudition of the recruit is analyzed, the level of his knowledge of English and other languages, basic knowledge in a number of sciences, from stories before mathematics. Also, right in the recruitment point physical standards are surrendered (running, pulling up, etc.).
According to the results of all checks, the choice of available specialties is offered (it can be quite large, from a simple infantryman to a satellite operator). As a result, the candidate signs a contract (the length of which you can choose, it also depends on the army specialization, usually from 2 to 6 years). After that, the young recruit goes home, where he is waiting for a call; having received notification of the time and date, the newly baked American soldier is again with things at the recruitment point, from where he is delivered to the “school” by public transport.
Yes, exactly, in the American army there are also “studies”, and what is really happening in Hollywood films is happening there. There are very few officers there, communication of the arrived recruits with them is reduced to a minimum, and professional sergeants with experience become the “kings and gods” of the young “candidates for privates”.
Upon arrival at the “school”, all recruits inspect personal belongings, and the sergeants meticulously and competently search the “recruits” so that they do not carry anything extra (usually alcohol and drugs) into the location.
Then follows a new medical commission and conscripts receive army uniforms. After that, the sergeants call up the future soldiers of the US Army assigned to them, naming their name, surname and state / city (this is necessary because there are many namesakes in the USA, and even full namesake, hence the appearance of John Masters Ohio and John Masters Oklahoma).
After that, all the "candidates for privates" go to the barracks to stay. Usually this is a fairly comfortable room, designed for about 30 people (American platoon), where there are bunk beds, lockers for personal belongings and all the minimum amenities necessary for life.
From this point on, recruits start a “young fighter course” (depending on military specialization, it can last from 2 to 8 for more than a month). During training, future yankee soldiers are trained in running, in passing obstacle courses, sergeants will expose them to psycho-emotional humiliation, etc. In general, the purpose of all this is not only to accustom the recruit to physical exertion, but also to identify physically and morally weak soldiers, so that they do not spend the money of the American military budget in the future.
In addition, recruits will again give up various tests, and sergeants will write different reviews about "candidates for the rank and file", how this or that recruit is suitable for the chosen specialization, or he should learn from another.
By the way, it was during this period that ordinary soldiers trained in the main types of bayonet combat, and a rather characteristic moment is associated with this, showing the US geostrategic opponents. The main mass of scarecrows representing enemy soldiers are called “Abdul”, and accordingly equipped in the style of “mojahed”. However, part of the dummy sometimes represents “Ivanov” (mostly equipped as early as Soviet uniform in the somewhat fancy style of the Red Army), and some - “ranks” or “Japs”, also referred to as the traditions of the Second World War period, ie Chinese and Japanese (who are dressed in Asian uniforms of the 10-20 countries of the summer prescription).
After passing the base “course of the young fighter” during 2 months and passing the next tests, recruits are transported to another part of their base, or they generally change their home base for further, more in-depth training in the chosen military specialty.
This course usually takes a much longer period of time: training as a simple infantryman takes 2-4 a month; as a sniper, deminer, radio operator, from 3 to 5 months; as a tank driver, artilleryman, artillery spotter, ground aircraft operator - 5-8 months and more. And only after this is the solemn release and appointment of young soldiers in combat units.
Continuation of the material will be in the second part.
PS (in small print at the bottom of the contract) Yes, I almost forgot, a small bonus - since in the US there is universal gender equality and freedom of manners, gay men and lesbians can quietly serve in the American army on general grounds, so far only transgender people have some difficulties (D. Trump tried to prohibit serving this category of persons, however a number of federal courts canceled his decision and from 1 in January 2018, transgender people can serve in the US Army).
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