Partial mobilization - military retraining program
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Where are the mobilized needed?
Three hundred thousand mobilized is a full-fledged combined arms army or three army corps. With the proper level of operational skill of command, this is a force capable of inflicting significant losses on the enemy and changing the situation on the fronts. It is only necessary to decide how to most effectively use the potential of partial mobilization. Either way, there are three scenarios.
The first is the formation of the above-mentioned corps or divisions. The command staff is made up of professional military personnel who have gained experience in combat operations in Ukraine. This is especially important, since the mere presence of combat experience does not guarantee anything. As has been repeatedly noted, Ukraine-2022 is not Syria-2016, not Georgia-2008, and even less Chechnya of the 90s and early 2000s. Russian troops faced a completely high-tech army, which in many areas has switched to NATO equipment and standards. Therefore, the experience of conducting a counter-terrorist struggle will be useful only in terms of the moral and psychological stability of the fighters.
The scenario of manning divisions and corps from the mobilized is possible, but undesirable. Even after two or three months of training and combat rallying, reservists will not reach the level of combat capability of professional soldiers. This takes not months, but years. To develop the necessary skills in combat conditions is completely unreasonable. And that's putting it mildly.
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Similar mobilization mechanisms worked during the Great Patriotic War, but these were extreme measures. Freshly formed units of the mobilized may also replace the troops stationed in the liberated territories. To maintain order and ensure the work of military-civilian administrations. Here it is high time to introduce a counter-terrorist operation regime, and the combat experience of the mobilized will come in handy. The released units of the army and the Russian Guard can go both to the front and to the next vacation as part of the rotation.
The second scenario for the combat work of reservists may be the replenishment of bloodless units on the front line. The most combat-ready and motivated fighters will fall under the care of comrades-in-arms who have gone through the fire and water of a special operation. If we consider options for attracting mobilized to combat work, then this option is the most preferable.
There is also a third scenario for the use of mobilized people - this is a change at the points of permanent deployment of professional soldiers. Actually, partial mobilization was started because of the inability to withdraw troops, for example, from the Kaliningrad region or the Far East and transfer them to Ukraine. Who will protect the borders in this case?
The mobilized look like an excellent alternative - they can replace the professional military of the conditional unit N, which previously could not be sent to the front. The combat effectiveness of units formed from contract soldiers who have served more than one year in the army will a priori be higher than that of those mobilized who have completed a two-three month intensive course.
Remember how to hold the machine
The army is now on the front line in need of the most "belligerent" specialties - shooters, machine gunners, grenade throwers, snipers, flamethrowers, tankers, artillerymen and reconnaissance. Naturally, the fighting fraternity needs to be transported (hence the need for drivers), fed (cooks) and treated (paramedics and doctors are also mobilized).
Least of all, it is required to retrain truck drivers. Reservists under the age of 35 are subject to partial mobilization, which means that they have served in the last 20-27 years - during this time nothing fundamentally new from wheeled vehicles has appeared in the army. There are no big changes in the maintenance of equipment. This, by the way, is one of the undoubted advantages of the military command's conservatism in this matter.
The situation with military doctors is more complicated. Military field surgery is somewhat different from civilian work. The vast majority of medical professionals have experienced only a few bullet wounds in their entire careers, and most likely never severe contusions or mine-explosive injuries.
It is worth recalling that the main lethal force in Ukraine is howitzers, guns and rockets. On both sides, up to 90 percent of the losses are due to cannon artillery and MLRS strikes. And the injuries on the battlefield are appropriate. Therefore, civilian doctors also undergo the necessary retraining courses. The main sites are the Omsk Medical University, the hospital of the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy and the hospital. Burdenko in Moscow.
Do not forget about the military chefs, refreshing skills in the specialized 190th school of the Western Military District. You will have to remember in the well-deserved field kitchens PAK-200M and PAK-130M, which allow you to cook for a hundred or more fighters even during the march.
The preparation of the mobilized is divided into three main stages. The first is at points of permanent deployment in the depths of Russian territory. The second is in the liberated territories, which are about to officially become part of Russia. For example, training grounds have been deployed in the Donetsk region, where reservists hone their shooting skills from different calibers. Russian training centers are also used. The list includes a training ground near Moscow in Alabino, an airborne training center in Omsk and others.
Do not forget the many military training centers of Russian universities. For example, we give the structure of the center at Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman. The division consists of seven departments that train officers, sergeants and reserve soldiers in a variety of professions - from "organization of the operation and repair of missile defense systems" to "specialists in the repair and storage of vehicles." If necessary, these centers can be quickly re-profiled for the military registration specialties that the army now needs.
And finally, the third stage of training takes place directly in the units at the front.
As always, story not without nuances. First of all, it is necessary to pay special attention to the medical training of each fighter. Reduction of sanitary losses should become the most important task in all subdivisions and, first of all, by training personnel in the rules of first aid for themselves and their comrades. With an appropriate level of equipment with personal first-aid kits, of course.
If we consider the period of training of personnel in one to three months, it becomes clear that they will get to the front in winter. Ukraine, of course, is not Siberia, but even here the rules for survival in sub-zero temperatures are required. On the issue of medical admission to military service - how important is it to weed out fighters with chronic diseases, who will inevitably go into an acute stage after the first night in a snow-covered dugout or trench. This will certainly affect both the morale of the formations and the combat capability.
The engineering training of personnel also comes to the fore. Events on the fronts of Ukraine are developing as follows - yesterday the unit was advancing, and tomorrow it is necessary to build an echeloned defense. The command staff, which is also subject to partial mobilization, is simply required to have command skills in mobile defense, building minefields and organizing engineering barriers.
The most "high-tech" fighters, of course, are UAV operators of all levels, but primarily tactical. It is they that make it possible to create an unsurpassed in efficiency “drone-artillery weapon” combination, which turns an ordinary mortar into a high-precision one. weapon. This is so important that it is time to create separate training centers for such specialists. At the same time, without forgetting to equip operators with these very drones.
"Electronic Hygiene" is another course for a young fighter, which became necessary before being sent to Ukraine. Every soldier must understand that his cell phone is a potential beacon for enemy reconnaissance and a target for artillery. And popular messengers are sources of intelligence information.
Finding the optimal training period for a reservist is not easy. On the one hand, it is much easier for a machine gunner to remember the skills he received in CTO in Chechnya. The company "Pecheneg", for example, is not fundamentally different from the PKM. What can not be said about other technology.
There are two extremes here. Modern designs, such as the T-90M, differ in both ergonomics and combat capabilities. Most of the tankers who served military service did not see thermal imaging devices, for example. It is necessary to develop skills to automatism. By the way, this is exactly what reservists are doing at one of the training grounds in the Crimea.
The second extreme is the decommissioned T-62, which is widely used in Ukraine. I really want to believe that tankers from among the mobilized will not receive such equipment, but if so, then most of them will have to be retrained from scratch. In the end, in Russia, industry has long since switched to mobilization mode, and two or three months will be enough for Uralvagonzavod to saturate the army of mobilized with modern tanks.
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