Kontraktniki in the phase of filtration. Defense Ministry gets rid of personnel ballast
According to official sources of the Ministry of Defense, this is a serious test for soldiers and sergeants, who must be tested in the selection process. tanksto make a march-throw of 50 km over rough terrain, equipping the night with our own forces, making fire without matches, extracting and filtering water using improvised means, etc. During the tests, a significant personnel ballast was found.
For example, only in the troops of the Southern Military District (Southeast Military District), about a thousand soldiers and sergeants were identified who did not pass the test. According to the press service of the Southern Military District, during the six-week intensive combat training, where extreme forms of vital activity of the military personnel were tested, part of the personnel in the early days was eliminated by military medical commissions for health reasons. Others did not express a desire to take a "survival course," writing reports with a refusal. For the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, this is very important and necessary information, which to a certain extent shows the capacity of the troops, since contract soldiers, according to official figures, today constitute a significant stratum - 18% of the regular army strength and fleet. According to one of the first decrees of President Vladimir Putin of May 7, 2012, the share of contract soldiers this year should be increased by 50 thousand people. That is, by the beginning of 2013, every fourth member of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will be a professional. And the total share of contract service officers, soldiers and sergeants will be almost 50% of the RF Armed Forces by this date.
So far, the military leadership has stated such plans with confidence. Although the economic crisis, apparently, these plans may correct. If the military budget, which constitutes 3,1% of the country's GDP, is subject to sequestration, then, according to sources from the Ministry of Defense, it will primarily affect the quantitative indicators of the recruitment plan for the troops of contract soldiers. To replace them in regular cells, recruits are, of course, already “hammered”. One way or another, this autumn the Main Organizational-Mobilization Directorate (GOMU) of the General Staff plans to almost double the number of young men drafted into the troops (up to 280 thousand). This should happen, sources believe in GOMU, by increasing the stratum of undergraduate and graduate students who study at state-owned universities that do not have state accreditation, as well as by possible changes in legislation (the adoption of a package of amendments to the State Duma Act service ", which should significantly increase the call-up layer among the young people of the country). “Increasing the quality indicators of soldiers and sergeants who perform military service under the contract is an important and responsible task of the Ministry of Defense. It is very correct that the troops are now beginning to use the experience of the Soviet army. There, classes on enhancing the moral and psychological stability and physical endurance of the personnel were regular and held twice a year, ”says Lt. Gen. Yuri Netkachev, who at the end of 90 as deputy commander of the Group of Russian Forces in the Transcaucasus was in charge of combat training of military personnel. In his opinion, such survival tests should be organized not only with contract soldiers, but with all the personnel of the army and navy, including officers, warrant officers and conscripts. Before that, he thinks conscripts sent to the troops should in the civilian undergo elementary military training and have an accounting military specialty, which they should receive in the DOSAAF school.
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