Army - What did you get there and what did you lose?

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Some ask questions: what did you get there and what did you lose? Here are the most frequent and reliable answers.

1. If a person has some quality - the army is able to strengthen it a hundredfold., it does not matter what mark this quality is. In Christianity it is said that “the poor will be taken away, and the rich will be added”, in Buddhism - “if you have a stick, I will give you a stick, if there is no stick, I will take it away from you”, and in the old Russian proverb - "The rich and against the will of the oil put in porridge, and the poor and accidentally in the water we ... ut". Yes, that's it. And if you are a “brake”, then in the army your braking will unfold to immense horizons, and if you are a leader, you will have every chance to strengthen and develop this skill. Also, alas, and with health ...

2. Army life is very concentrated, so you can always learn something good - would see in this sense. Free of charge to lead an armored personnel carrier (he is a car), to perform repair, finishing and construction work, to master the skills of a skillful way of dealing with elders and bosses in Confucianism and much more. You begin to understand the fussiness of high technologies (computers, mobile communications, etc.).

3. Neatness and punctuality - this is truly a school of life for those who appreciate it and doubly for those who have not yet learned it.

4. Creativity - there is more than enough of her in the army. And this is not only the ability to cook porridge from an ax, but also the ability to lie plausibly (not just telling a lie, but also distorting the context, and keep back, and just keep silent), and hide unauthorized things, and find a non-trivial solution in just seconds. The price for this can be not only reputation, but also human life.

5. The ability to appreciate time in a broad sense - and just wait and endure, and at the same time squeeze the most out of every free minute.

6. The ability to pay attention to the little things (and 80% of them consist of life) - the beauty of nature, a cup of hot tea, a letter received, shoes taken in the evening, spring grass and much more.

7. The ability to see beyond the commonplace wisdom. A simple example: how in modern wars special forces are beaten? Right, on the march. And the infantry is not beaten like that, because, without possessing excessively special skills, its representatives master the Charter well (at first glance, the most insubstantial thing). Where it is very clearly stated who and where in the car takes a place. And if the unexpected happened - not only fight back, but also counterattack. But it’s better not to charge these people with stripping and other diplomacy, as well as poking around in a modern city on horseback without any preliminary processing aviation и artillery (alas, this has happened too).

8. Knowing of limits. Remember the film with S.Sigal where he served as a cook on a battleship seized by terrorists? And who were those terrorists? That's right, the same guys. But, as one of the local generals said, "they were too creative, so we decided to eliminate them." In most cases, not the strongest, but the average representatives of the species actually survive ...

9. Finally, only in conditions of a forced same-sex communityyou really appreciate the fair sex and you understand that without them life is not quite life. And just a service.

10. Impenetrability and arrogance. in any case, life in the harsh male community is equivalent to living practically in the jungle, if the eyes of the officer, sergeant and statute were not the keen eyes, only the weak would work in the army physically or morally.
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  1. Old prdun
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    5 February 2012 17: 35
    Cool. wink I agree with only 4 points. As for 7: what, really the special forces do not know the rules for the movement of the column on the march? 6 point finally to nowhere ... And finally. I remember there was a main principle: the day has passed! Yes and x .. with him! And the self-propelled guns, the booze in the guardhouse, the chopping of the dubbing officers, was also a fintz! And it’s lucky if the unit has a prankster: honey, not honey, but the service turned into rzhach quite often.
    Finally, mnu on this site nravitstso. That's just a pity, so many sensible posts without comment.
  2. seafarer
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    5 December 2012 05: 52
    And so it is necessary to conduct an advertising campaign for the draft.
    I agree with paragraph 5 100%: you value every second as much as you ever did, and you managed to do so much - now and in a week you are unlikely to do so much.
    Clauses 3, 4, 10 also tested in their own skin. That's only creativity has always been called resourcefulness in our army.