go As "fatten up" about the army

Overweight conscripts, soldiers and sailors, sergeants and petty officers may not read this material: it is written for those who have just the opposite. So, a friend who has a low body weight and therefore offensive nicknames, read this text and pass it to another person who is similar in build to you.

A few years ago, a big scandal occurred in the Armed Forces of the USSR: sailors suffering from dystrophy - due to chronic malnutrition-were found in the training detachment of the Pacific Fleet on Russian Island. The perpetrators were then punished, but this case was written about for a long time in newspapers and talked about in TV and radio studios: they say that they are starving in the army.

Then it was hard to imagine that most of the former big country would turn into a huge New Russian island, where many people would be given the opportunity, if not to starve to death, then to lose a lot of weight, that's for sure. It was just as hard to imagine, however, that service in the army and Navy for many would begin in "feedlots". Nevertheless, this is true: for many young people from different parts of Russia who suffer from dystrophy, shamefacedly covered up by the official medical diagnosis "low body weight", the Armed Forces have actually become the only place where you can live relatively well, where there is still some three meals a day left.

Those who doubt that in the army you can slightly fatten up to a normal weight, just need to read the contents of the current directive of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation "On the organization in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of work with military personnel with reduced body weight", issued on October 31, 1996 for ?205/2/481.

So, skinny guy, "not zakosivshi" from conscription, remember what the minister requires from your commanders and superiors. And keep in mind that if these requirements are not met and your body weight is not restored to normal within about two months, you can safely complain-first on command, and then write a letter to the Reception of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation at the address: Moscow, Myasnitskaya str., 37 or to our editorial office (with a note on the envelope, "Rookie reference point").

The first paragraph of the directive is devoted to the so-called separate fattening units . They should be created in district training centers and military units if there are ten or more military personnel with reduced body weight.

The second point provides for constant medical monitoring of the health status of the "fattened", weekly control weigh-ins and the removal of physical performance indicators.

Special attention is paid to identifying cases of weight loss in military personnel during the first month of service. If it is detected and is from 5 to 10 percent of the initial value, the emaciated person should be sent to the garrison military medical commission, where they will determine the need for additional nutrition. If a soldier has lost more than 10 percent of the weight he had in the first month of service (for example, when he was 170 cm tall, he lost weight from 58 to 52 kilograms), then he should be placed in a hospital (infirmary). for examination and treatment.

The directive requires the establishment of a certain daily routine for these individual units, in which the time of combat training is reduced to 5 hours, and independent training-to two; afternoon time is increased to 1-2 hours; physical exercises are carried out in a light version. Scheduled physical training should be no more than 5 hours per week, with the exception of hand-to-hand combat, long-distance running, obstacle avoidance, and ski training. Daily outfits - only for each company, and with an increased number of daily shifts.

It is strictly forbidden to involve "fattened" people in the maintenance of machinery, construction and other heavy physical work.

This is how the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation take care of people with a weight deficit. By the way, it happens that care is taken so intensively that some officers, when they are discharged to the reserve, have to enter the diagnosis of "first-degree obesity"in the column of the medical document on diseases received during military service. Of course, this phenomenon is not widespread, but, as they say, it takes place. Most of them, both in the country and in the army, are not up to fat...

Just do not be afraid that after being "fattened up", when you are transferred to a regular unit, you will be considered a SCHMUCK (a person who interferes with society) and, accordingly, "zachmyryat". Calmly gain weight, save up your mental and physical strength: otherwise, you simply cannot bear the loads in the "post-feeding" period, which, however,not everyone from among those who ate well "in civilian life" can immediately withstand. By the way, even in these divisions, the conditions of service can only be called sanatorium-resort with a big stretch.

As for the transfer from these individual units to regular ones, do not worry, it is carried out only after the restoration of normal weight and working capacity - after the conclusion of the garrison military medical commission.

The question may arise: what to do if, for example, a soldier who has served, say, a year and a half of conscription has started to lose weight sharply in a regiment? The directive provides that if even a single low-weight serviceman appears in the unit, then the daily routine provided for for the units mentioned above is established for him. And during all morning examinations and evening checks, special attention should be paid to the state of health of such a serviceman.

However, the Minister of Defense in this directive once again requires taking care of the health of all military personnel, and sending those in need of medical care to medical units in strict accordance with the requirements of the Charter of the Internal Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. By the way, the regulations, comrade, need to know both lean and well-fed. But that's another topic.

And about the food and the Russian Island... There, in the" textbook", seventeen years ago, my urgent service also began. True, it did not reach dystrophy, but the kilograms purchased at home were lost rapidly, and for the entire six months, until they were sent to the cruiser, I really wanted to eat. Then they said: "Those who have passed Russian are not afraid of the Buchenwald concentration camp." It probably hasn't gotten any better now. But today, in the island training squad, dystrophics are still being fattened up with the same modest grub "from the citizen". It turns out that everything is relative, and in our country it is not so bad that it can not get even worse...

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