It is well known that combat training cannot be built on textbooks alone. You need to shoot, drive, jump with a parachute. Funds are needed for all this. And those were spelled out at the beginning of the last year, 1998, as a separate line in the military budget expenditures. But everything was smooth only on paper. But what about reality? A good example: the famous motorized rifle Pacific Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov division, today called the district training center for junior specialists, received 360 thousand rubles from the military training assigned in 1998... only 55 thousand. Roughly speaking, a little more than 1/7 of the needs! Can you imagine the picture? The platoon leader builds three squads of seven men in a column of one and explains that Ivanov, Petrov and Sidorov are going to the training ground. The other eighteen - to the right, march at a walk to the barracks to memorize the regulations, because shooting, driving and other army sciences that require practical training, guys, did not get a penny from the state... But here's the paradox! No matter how much this very state tests the strength of its servicemen, nothing like the picture described above happens. The deputy head of the district training center, Colonel Mukhazhid Zakuyev, explains this fact by saying that the division has learned to save money, and often look for it... communications. Not from a good life, of course, you have, for example, to go on a bow to logging farms. In one forestry enterprise, you will ask for a loan of the so-called sawing, in another you will throw a" hunchback". You see, new targets of the "enemy" grow up on the target fields. Driver mechanics are trained at mini-training grounds near the regiments ' locations-again, in order to save money: you don't have to spend precious liters of fuel and lubricants on the road to the tankodrome. Fuel economy should be discussed separately. Each commander of the unit calculates literally up to a liter of fuel and lubricants ... Читать далее