In uniform

Steam

October 25, 2010 Alexander Golts

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was substituted. The International Union of Paratroopers appealed to the President and the Patriarch with the demand to “give an assessment” to the hazardous actions of the head of the military department. According to retired, but very well -deserved paratroopers, Serdyukov, visiting the Seltsian training center, the Ryazan Higher Command School of the Airborne Forces, “in a rude uniform, obscenely abuse of the Hero of Russia of the Guard of Colonel Andrei Krasov, humiliating his professional and personal dignity under his subordinates,” gave the order to destroy the church located on the territory of the training center, and the Beauty himself - and the beauty himself. fire. I really want to add sacramental "And then on the ruins of the chapel ..."

In the presentation of the commander of the Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov, the story looks a little different. “The Minister of Defense really expressed doubt about the advisability of building a temple opposite the educational corps,” Shamanov said. “The fact is that the temple is far from the nearest villages, and the cadets themselves stay in the territory of the training center little time.” This version was clarified by the Deputy Minister, responsible for the arrangement and housing of Grigory Naginsky, who was present at the scene of the event. In his presentation, the cause of the conflict is not a temple at all, but the fact that there are several objects on the territory of the unit for the construction of which no one gave permission.

“We watched objects that have been unfinished since 2008-2009 ... The previous commander violated everything that could be violated, because for 2009, for 2010, not a single penny was allocated for construction in the villages, therefore, he launched the builders who worked there for 180 million rubles, in my understanding, illegally from all sides,” Naginsky said. Moreover, on the territory of the unit, it is not clear where the store has come from.

Let us pay tribute to the subtle spiritual landing general Vladislav Achalov and the former intelligence of the Airborne Forces of the retired colonel Pavel Popovsky, who over many decades of the service retained the ability to boil their souls, hearing a bossy mat. However, it is easy to imagine the emotions of the minister, who found out that construction in the military unit is carried out at the expense of the ministry, but without demand. It is no less curious that the incident that occurred on September 30 received publicity on the Internet no earlier than October 14. It turns out that the offended suffered as much as two weeks.

Finally, the most amazing thing: with the exception of the insults inflicted by Colonel Krasov, the authors of the appeal are charged with Serdyukov who is nonsense: the “wrong” appointment of the head of the school, a decrease in the status of the training center and insufficient attention to the Museum of the Airborne Forces. And this is no coincidence - unlike other branches of troops, the paratroopers had practically no reductions. Moreover, soon two new airborne brigades will appear as part of the airborne troops. The only thing that is somewhat overshadowed by the life of the heads of the Airborne Forces is the transfer of command to Ryazan. Of course, the prospect of farewell to the building in the sailor of the silence of enthusiasm does not add to the landing chiefs. But then was it worth a stool?

In fact, of course, the ill -wishers of Anatoly Eduardovich could not help but take such a convenient occasion. Not only did the Hero of Russia be the object of anger of the minister. The reason was the Orthodox temple. Therefore, ideal conditions for the attack have been created - the destroyer of the glorious armed forces does not put the honored officers in a penny, and he also has nothing to the saint - the temple ordered to remove from the territory of the military unit. As a result, Serdyukov’s conflict with retired paratroopers undertook to investigate the State Duma Committee on Defense. The press appeared that the prime minister ordered the minister to write a statement with a request for a resignation. The Putin press secretary Dmitry Peskov had to verily refute this information and call all this “full rubbish”.

The reason for the massive information attack was by no means the aggravated sensitivity of the affiliatory officers to Matu and not religiosity at all. Moreover, someone very dexterous subjected to the statement of retired paratroopers a statement by a certain Union of Military Sailors (registered in a private Moscow apartment at the beginning of this year), which saw the light on September 14, that is, two weeks before the Svetakov allegedly inflicted an indelible insult to the paratroopers.

The whole thing, in my opinion, is that a new revolution ripens in the armed forces today. Officers, up to the highest, will relieve serious responsibility for spending financial resources. Both the commander of the unit and the district commander should not now be responsible for either the work of the boiler room or dining room, or for ensuring the electricity of the district troops. With all the necessary troops - from the ammunition to the most complex weapons - civil departments - Oboronservice, the Rosoboronpostavka and others will be engaged in. Military reformers set their goal to end the commanders forever - “strong business executives”. For decades, the commander was evaluated by the senior bosses by no means as he prepared his part for action on the battlefield. He was evaluated whether he managed or not to build a dining room or a bathhouse “household”, that is, without allocating the necessary resources. All this plunged the commanders in the cunning of corruption relations. The officer paid for the boards and bricks with the help of the only resource that was at his disposal - free labor. If in Soviet times this system was at least somehow limited to party control, then in the 90s, when the state did not have money at all to maintain a giant military machine, military units were practically doomed to self-sufficiency. As a result, now officers who were perfectly able to “spin”, but not to command, have come to the post of commanders of the armies, but not to command. This is not their fault, but trouble. And the Ministry of Defense creates a special system for retraining of the highest and senior officers.

However, not all military leaders are inspired by the prospect of day and night to improve in the management of the troops, in the methodology of combat training and at the same time have at their disposal only the money that will go on a personal card in the form of a salary. Many have long been accustomed to side income, which have already become basic. In ministerial innovations, they see the main threat to their interests. And, as we see, they do not stand on ceremony.

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