How to get into the Airborne Forces to serve under conscription and contract

14.07.2014

If a young man is about to serve in the Airborne Forces, he should urgently take care of his physical fitness. For a future paratrooper, not only strength is important, but also endurance. It is best to start with martial arts, which will ideally prepare you for this difficult service. You can also work out in the athletics section. When the military registration and enlistment office selects candidates for the Airborne Forces, they are interested in the presence of a sports category and other achievements. Therefore, there is no need to feel sorry for yourself. Training must be complete in order to achieve the highest possible level. And the greatest chance of ending up in the Airborne Forces is with parachuting specialists.

Contract service in the Airborne Forces

If you are interested in service under an Airborne Forces contract, then you need to take care of your health. Forget about bad habits from a young age. You must have ideal health corresponding to fitness category “A”. Without this, you will not be able to serve in the airborne forces. It is necessary to independently take care of regular medical examinations and hardening of the body.

Do not neglect issues of psychological preparation. You must have serious motivation to serve in the airborne forces. You need to have a serious view of things and forget about romantic illusions. Service in any branch of the military, and especially in this one, is associated, first of all, with hard work and constant psychological pressure.

Get regular physical training, but don't forget about school. Without good knowledge of the exact sciences and humanities, it will be extremely difficult to serve. It is necessary to have real knowledge, and not the minimum course required to pass the Unified State Exam. This is especially true for applicants to the Ryazan Military School, which trains top-level specialists for the Airborne Forces.

Contract service in the Airborne Forces is impossible for those young people whose relatives have been convicted. It is useless to hide this fact at the military registration and enlistment office or the admissions committee. The entire range of information provided by conscripts or future contract soldiers is scrupulously checked.

From a conversation with the commander of the Airborne Forces, Hero of Russia, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, it became known that there are more and more people wishing to serve in the Airborne Forces every year. But due to the low level of health of conscripts and poor physical readiness, many of them have to be turned away. Although the requirements for recruits are not strict, these two indicators are unshakable. For this reason, the recruitment of airborne forces faces certain difficulties.

As Shamanov said, the requirements for future paratroopers are higher than the requirements for conscripts of other branches of the military. It is not for nothing that paratroopers are called winged infantry. Although the motorized rifle units of the Airborne Forces have a lot of modern equipment, and soldiers have to ride much more than walk, there is nothing to do in the landing force without physical training. According to the commander of the Airborne Forces, the task is considered completed only after the soldier’s foot stands on the edge of the enemy’s trench.

Daily routine in the Airborne Forces

The daily routine in the Airborne Forces is so complex and intense that even healthy recruits have an extremely difficult time coping with it at first. This is especially true for skydiving. A conscript soldier is required to perform twelve jumps in the first year, six for each training period. Without parachute training, service in the airborne troops is impossible. All military personnel, from privates to generals, must parachute. General Shamanov himself also regularly jumped with a parachute until he got into an accident. Once the restrictions are lifted, he plans to resume his parachute practice.

The Russian army became professional precisely with the airborne troops. Now in the Airborne Forces, only thirty percent of all personnel will undergo compulsory service. Every third soldier and sergeant has a diploma of higher, secondary specialized education or a document of incomplete higher education. According to Shamanov, in the future the Russian army should be formed on the basis of a mixed principle. 70 percent of contract soldiers and 30 percent of conscripts must serve in airborne units. This will be the optimal combination.

Conscript service in the Airborne Forces today

The fact is that, in accordance with the current conscription service period, fifteen percent of the personnel are completely replaced every year in the spring and fall. Based on a scientifically established criterion, we can talk about the combat effectiveness of a unit or military unit when it is at least seventy percent staffed. According to the existing rotation of personnel, staffing levels should not be lower than eighty percent. It is also necessary to take into account the illness of a certain number of military personnel, absence for various reasons. In any case, in this situation the combat effectiveness of the units will be maintained.

Today, 15 percent of conscripts in their region complete compulsory service in the Airborne Forces. When they are fired, they become a mobilization resource in the republics, territories and regions. The country is constantly preparing and renewing emergency reserves. The conscription is absolutely necessary; no one plans to refuse it. The implementation of such ideas is happening today in the Airborne Forces.

Vladimir Shamanov was asked what positions the contract service is focused on in the Airborne Forces, and what positions are intended for conscripts. According to the commander of the Airborne Forces, junior commanders should already be contract soldiers, who must be selected in advance and trained. The same is true for a number of positions in logistics, technical, repair and airborne support. Previously, only officers served in these positions, but today they are often replaced by contract soldiers and professional sergeants.

Options for recruiting airborne forces in the foreseeable future

In one more category we cannot do without contract soldiers. We are talking about specialists in one or another weapon or equipment, the operation of which requires not only general educational knowledge, but also special knowledge. The Airborne Forces today cannot do without a professional squad commander, driver and gunner-operator. They monitor not only the technical condition, but also the survivability of the combat vehicle.

The BMD crew has seven fighters, three of whom must be contract soldiers, and four (grenade launchers, riflemen) can be conscripts. It will take two to three years to train a high-level driver mechanic. And three months at the training center is clearly not enough. By recruiting a contract soldier, we help reduce the burden of conscription. Under the first contract, a professional must serve for three years. During this time, six calls for military service take place.

The daily routine of a paratrooper is complex and very busy, and even for a contract soldier it will seem too busy at first. But thanks to one professional, five young people manage to avoid conscription by concentrating on studying or mastering a civilian profession. There are still not enough professionals in the Airborne Forces. In the Ulyanovsk brigade alone, 60 percent of contract soldiers serve as soldiers and sergeants. The region of the country influences the desire to serve in the army under a contract. The higher the salary level, the less desire to serve in the army. But this trend has been changing recently, after an increase in salaries for military personnel.

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Airborne Troops

Airborne Forces motto: “Nobody but us”

March of the paratroopers . Watch the video... Parade on Victory Day 2014. Paratroopers are walking along Red Square, airborne special forces are walking. Landing of 1,500 people with D-10 parachutes from Il-76 aircraft. Landing of equipment. The parade pace is 120 steps per minute. Look! This is the Airborne Forces!

Many people are breathtaking when the paratroopers walk across Red Square. The faces of the guys, in whose eyes every step they take reflects pride in the troops, whose representatives they are walking along the Main Square of the Motherland. They visited the Sky under the canopies of parachutes, underwent exercises, many of them participated in combat operations, protecting the interests and security of the Motherland. Serving Russia, serving one’s Motherland is worthy of everyone’s honor, because behind this stands security and a peaceful Sky above the heads of family and friends.

The Airborne Forces consist of formations, units and units of paratroopers, tanks, artillery... engineering troops, communications... squadron... Everything is in the Airborne Forces. The Airborne Forces are the reserve of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces and the basis of mobile rapid reaction forces. And there are no impossible tasks where there are Airborne Troops.

Additional factors

There are several factors that can significantly increase a young man's chances of successfully enlisting in the Airborne Forces. These include:

People enter the army not only by mobilization, but also by vocation. How many boys freeze in front of their TV screens when military exercises with the participation of airborne or airborne troops are shown. Strength and agility, determination and resourcefulness distinguish the fighters of this famous group of troops. Tall guys in camouflage and blue berets are the embodiment of the dreams of boys from school. “If you’re going to join the army, then only join the Airborne Forces,” say many future recruits. Who has a real chance of getting into the valiant Airborne Forces?

I want to serve in the Airborne Forces

More and more often we hear from the guys: “I want to serve in the Airborne Forces . What is needed for this? How to get into service in the Airborne Forces." Good desire and good questions.

You need to prepare for service in the Airborne Forces.

Preference is given not only to the strong, but also to the smart.

1. Study, get an education. If you, having received a higher education, are conscripted, then the military registration and enlistment office will offer you either to serve a year under conscription, or two years under a contract. What do you think the guys choose? Yes! Mostly they go to serve under a contract.

2. Sports development. The main thing is running 3-5 km in the morning. The crossbar is a pull-up with a normal grip, not a reverse grip. The snatch pull-up is all about speed, while the power pull-up is all about the need and work on the inversion bar. Hang on the bar with a normal grip and work your feet up to the bar. Push-ups from the floor on your hands, on your fists and on your fingers. Push-ups on parallel bars.

Swim, play volleyball, basketball, football. This is all physical development.

3. At all commissions at the military registration and enlistment office, declare your desire. And if you didn’t have time to declare at the medical commissions, go to the military registration and enlistment office in the conscription department and say that you want to serve in the Airborne Forces. Talk and convince until they put a mark on your record card.

If there is an airborne unit in the city, go to the commander, be able to prove to him your desire to serve in the Airborne Forces. Be brave from the very beginning, and if you get an attitude (this is the basis for the military registration and enlistment office for conscription into a certain unit), it will be just great.

4. If you serve in the Airborne Forces, you need to be ready for landing. Go skydiving. Three independent parachute jumps is the third sports category, it is assigned to everyone after the third jump.

Flag and emblem

The Airborne Forces flag was approved in 2004. It is 3/4 painted blue and symbolizes the sky. The remaining 1/4 is green and represents the forest area. On a blue background there is a picture of a parachutist with an open parachute, and two airplanes are flying on his sides.

This entire compositional group is painted gold. The Airborne Forces flag reminds us that these troops are intended to protect peaceful heaven and earth.

The Airborne Forces emblem can be found in several variations.

The most famous emblem of the Airborne Forces was approved in 1931 and represents a paratrooper with two aircraft. The author of the image is Z.I. Bocharova, who worked as a leading draftsman at the Airborne Forces headquarters.

In 2005, small, medium and large airborne emblems were approved. The small emblem shows a golden-colored grenada with wings. Above Grenada is a symbolic representation of fire. Grenada is a hand grenade, which was previously used by grenadiers, the strongest, tallest soldiers.

The middle emblem is represented by a golden double-headed eagle, which holds a silver sword in its right paw, and a winged silver grenada with a symbolic red fire above it in its left paw. In the center of the eagle there is a red shield, against the background of which a horseman is depicted killing a dragon with a spear.

The large emblem resembles the small one. The difference is that the image of Grenada is placed on a blue round shield, framed by a gold wreath of oak leaves. The composition is crowned with the emblem of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

All three emblems were approved in 2005.

How to get into service in the Airborne Forces

There is a desire to serve in the Airborne Forces. How to get into service in the Airborne Forces...?

The very first thing you need to do is express your desire to the Military Registration Office. Now many guys themselves come to the Military Commissariat, to the conscription department, and ask to be drafted into the Airborne Forces. They put a mark in their personal file: desire to serve in the Airborne Forces.

Throughout Russia there are Regional branches of the Union of Russian Paratroopers. You need to find your department and show up there, indicating your desires and intentions. The Union of Paratroopers works jointly with military registration and enlistment offices with pre-conscription youth, and there is an opportunity to attend military sports training camps. From here, too, a direct entry into service in the Airborne Forces, maybe even in a certain military unit.

I give information on the regional branches of the Union of Paratroopers of Russia. I took it from the website of the Union of Russian Paratroopers.

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Where do they serve in the Airborne Forces?

To the question of where they serve in the Airborne Forces , I will answer briefly.

The Airborne Forces include:

4 divisions - 7th in Novorossiysk, 76th in Pskov, 98th in Ivanovo, 106th in Tula;

31st Air Assault Brigade in Ulyanovsk

The 45th separate special-purpose regiment was formed in February 1994 on the basis of 218 and 901 separate special-purpose battalions. Location: Kubinka, Moscow region.

By the end of 2020, the 345th Separate Airborne Brigade will be formed in Voronezh. This is the revival of the 345th Guards OPDP.

The Airborne Forces Training Center is located in Omsk.

7th Guards Air Assault (Mountain) Division

- a connection between the Airborne Forces of the Soviet Army and the Russian Armed Forces. Formed on October 15, 1948.

Divisions:

108th Guards Air Assault Kuban Cossack Order of the Red Star Regiment (Novorossiysk)
247th Guards Air Assault Caucasian Cossack Regiment.[3] (Stavropol)
1141st Guards Artillery Regiment (Anapa)
3rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
743rd Separate Guards Signal Battalion
629th separate engineer battalion (Starotitarovskaya station, Krasnodar Territory)
1681st separate logistics battalion (Novorossiysk)
32nd separate medical detachment

76th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Air Assault Division (76th Guards Airborne Assault Division,

until March 1, 1943,
the 157th Rifle Division)
is the oldest existing airborne formation of the Russian Armed Forces.

Formed on September 1, 1939. Stationed in the city of Pskov, hence the nickname “Pskovskaya”, one of the air assault regiments is located in the suburban village of Cherekha.

Compound

management (headquarters)
104th Guards Air Assault Red Banner Regiment of the Order of Peter the Great
234th Guards Air Assault Black Sea Order of Kutuzov 3rd degree Regiment named after Alexander Nevsky
237th Guards Parachute Landing Torun Red Banner Regiment (disbanded in 2001). The regiment can be deployed after receiving an order, replenished with assigned personnel.
1140th Guards Artillery Twice Red Banner Regiment
4th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (formerly 165th Separate Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Division)
656th Guards Separate Engineer-Sapper Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky 3rd Class Battalion
728th Guards Separate Signal Battalion
7th Guards Separate Repair and Reconstruction Battalion
3996th military hospital (airmobile). All personnel have parachute training, from 3 jumps.
242nd separate military transport aviation squadron (An-2, An-3). Serves for direct airborne training of unit personnel without the involvement of the Russian Air Force VTA
1682nd Guards Separate Material Support Battalion
175th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Company
968th Guards Separate Airborne Support Company
separate RCBZ company
commandant company

98th Guards Svir Red Banner Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Airborne Division

- an airborne formation as part of the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russia.

Composition in 2012

98th Guards Airborne Division (Ivanovo) 217th Guards Parachute Regiment (Ivanovo)
331st Guards Parachute Regiment (Kostroma)
1065th Guards Red Banner Artillery Regiment (Kostroma)
5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (formerly 318th Separate Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Division; Ivanovo)
243rd separate military transport aviation squadron (Ivanovo)
36th separate medical detachment (airmobile) (Ivanovo)
674th Separate Guards Signal Battalion (Ivanovo)
661st separate engineer battalion (Ivanovo)
15th separate repair and restoration battalion (Ivanovo)
1683rd separate logistics battalion (Ivanovo)
969th separate airborne support company (Ivanovo)
215th separate guards reconnaissance company (Ivanovo)
728th courier-postal communication station (Ivanovo)
educational and training complex (Pesochnoe, Yaroslavl region).

106th Guards Airborne Order of Kutuzov Red Banner Division

— formation of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of the USSR, and then of the Russian Federation. Units of the division are stationed in Tula, Ryazan and Naro-Fominsk, the division headquarters is in Tula.

Composition of the division in 2009:

51st Guards Parachute Landing Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment named after Dmitry Donskoy
137th Guards Parachute Landing Order of the Red Star Regiment
1182nd Guards Artillery Novgorod Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd degree, Kutuzov 3rd degree, Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree and Alexander Nevsky Regiment (Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region)
173rd Guards Separate Reconnaissance Company
388th separate guards engineer battalion
731st Separate Guards Signal Battalion
970th separate airborne support company
43rd Guards Separate Repair and Reconstruction Battalion
1060th separate logistics battalion
39th separate medical detachment (airmobile)
1883rd courier-postal communication station
1st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (formerly 107th Separate Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Division (military unit 71298, Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region)

Information on airborne divisions - source Wikipedia

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