take these who are there at ten am to a side to squeeze out a. perfect. iraq sauna i can't believe i'm actually writing this i'm going to join the russian paratroopers the video of it. my fellow recruits are all just eighteen and they look it this is their first sign away from their parents but at least for now none of them seem to nervous the regiment spaced into a few hours drive away from moscow and when we pulled into the barracks i knew there was no turning back. comrade soldiers you're in the military now no more joking any more hair according to military regulations we perform our active duty now to positions dress left turn right for a single reich march on the double.

we're going to have a brown we're going to bed number eighty eight. pack your personal belongings in three minutes gather in the car door. this is boot camp all the new guys are looks in together in the complex for a minimum of one month and it's as crowded as i'd feared they must be at least eighty bunks in this one room and we were issued on new beds and told to make them quickly. make the bed. first smooth out the lower mattress then put the upper mattress on it one bed sheet on top. to slow. the faster faster faster any questions pile of everything's clear. twenty seconds left.

everyone shapes must be the same level. that's not how you make a bad. talk the foot under the mattress turn it on our. beds were all books jobs that we passed inspection i'm going to have to get used to being ordered around to morrow the hard work begins. oh rise and shine come on a. fan stir faster put on your sports uniform comrade paratroopers gone soldiers passed out faster you don't have much

time. as i thought it was just a walk in the park at six am we're awake at six ten we're up and running. this is just a short walk a couple of kilometers to get the haul something because we're only getting stops it's. finished the exercise. even though i'm probably fits of the i've been for years this is a totally different level. one to. push push. do as many push ups as you can. i can safely say i'm never going to get used to doing nakul pushups on gravel. the way you are you tired soldier. do you think it's going to be easy.

go on with the exercise. come on come on come in the morning. let's get ready to run. is this we don't call them good soldiers or bad so just. become an icon transform any construction to a good soldier is a bad one but the main thing is our soul. you have to want to become better almost a year they'll be back home boys but it's true men who understand the army way of life and have to shoulder to shoulder with their comrades. are years not enough to become a real soldier i know but at least a year of army service behind your soldiers is quite a good experience to have made a log. three

times a day when marched into the mess hall to eat the food is bland tasteless and portions are strictly controlled. this is where you get a real good look at who's actually in the army there are lads here from all over russia and some from the old soviet union guys with the faces of hardened veterans and kids that look like they haven't started shaving yet it's an interesting mix and a little intimidating. what do your family think about you being in the army of it is just part of me. well they're not worried i've told them it's a good military base everything's fine nothing seemed particularly difficult to me . both with a man must serve in the army that's what i believe. yes i don't respect people who avoid military service. commands partial disassembly today i also have my first

meeting with my new best friends my a k seventy four assault rifle in coma this is what's going to save your life so god help you if you don't look after it taking care of your gun means knowing it inside and out and we're all expected to be able to strip it and put it back to give some of the guys can do this in twenty seconds or less from now on more about accuracy. and machine guns are hard so all new comers hard their hands your hands will get used to it and become harder more agile you're not going to touch a gun as though it were woman you do everything quickly you shouldn't be too gentle some people become so skilled at it that they can assemble and disassemble it with their eyes closed and with one hand for instance if you get wounded you'll have to assemble it with just one hand they improvise. notching drill. they are on the move so on to this one. one.

one. one. two one. in front of your choice or. one. stronger. to rights march. one territory but do not change your. one three. one of your feet. driving around right leg left. one one one two three. brown yeah yeah. your moves are terrible. that will not do. a lot of marching practice for you. right

after dinner. another constant for us every day is going to be marching practice the fundamentals of soldiering put your hands and feet in the right place at the right time to the right rhythm i guess this is why they call it a drill because unless it's common to your skull until it sticks it's easy to mess it up. we can spend hours on the square trying to get it right. one thing we all have in common is how exhausted we are by lights out eleven pm you've got dozens of men ready to collapse the russians have a saying that something stinks like a barracks and it's certainly true we're just all too tired to care.

i knew today was going to be tough when we lined up in front of our heavy equipment we put on a flak jacket helmet gas mask and webbing about twenty five kilos worth and we're told get ready to run. this is what they call a forced march and it's brutal two kilometers would normally be a breeze but soon the extra weight has your shoulders in agony and my new boots are killing me. just to give us twenty minutes to recover in the shade but i was struggling and i was wondering how the others were coping with everything . well life changing it's not civilian life now we live according to army regulations thinking all about yourself you start telling your comrades about adjusting the uniform and things like that where one scene now.

two arms. to several dummy runs would be a case we were ready for the real deal live fire exercises and they don't disappoint. the private brown ready to fire fire first up range shooting targets one hundred because. the weather was becoming a real problem though it was already way of a thirty degree is when i was starting to overheat private brown firing fiery finished. but i think you'd still be proud of my first effort. brian brown. you're a good shooter it is your chance to tell it but you don't hold a gun firmly enough against your shoulder. only to recoil so the bullets go higher . the best part is seeing the end result. when i know i haven't wasted my

time on these guys it wasn't all in vain. i can say that i taught them to tell you with a first shot to take a parachute jump. if you see the results of all of my efforts everything else is routine in this tough life of ours. i also learned that i'll be firing a bazooka this week you'll no doubt be pleased to hear. private brown ready to file. the target whether grenade or fire don't worry i have been having lessons so hopefully i won't blow myself up. i can't hear anything.

that's the real me. and my young comrades with the problem get out here oh. well talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to put in the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your letter play them safe. secure you have a car it's all your job here no. thank you no more weasel words. when you fade a direct question be prepared for a change when you find you should be ready for a. freedom of speech

a little down to freedom to. the no c.n.n. the m s n b c fox news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. true. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on you. and our team we have to print press. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you got us into the jokes that will handle the stuff that i'm.

well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know the one year's military service is compulsory here for many aged eighteen to twenty seven but many try to avoid it some legally others less so. in two thousand and thirteen six hundred fifty thousand conscripts reported for duty but that's only seventy percent of those who are eligible. more recruits into the ranks is a priority for the top brass. as for me i think i'm finally starting to get. the fitness work is becoming a little easier i'm getting better with my gun and feeling more like

a real part of the unit. of course there's one thing that we're all waiting for more than anything else the thing that makes them unique. look here we've got the main parachute and there are three harnesses to pick the parachute away properly. yeah we're working to. help me with that side of the canopy all of us have to undergo a minimum of two weeks parachute training before off first jump and there's a lot to take in we see him up and work in pairs but the captain is always nearby to make sure we're doing it properly a mistake could literally be the difference between life and death but you pulling down carefully go go go. go take the chamber off the cloth stop. ok stop don't lift it you can't pull it here. it would

end badly. my training partner yvonne isn't far into his military service but he's finding it tough being away from home. i can see america. i must be difficult being here without. to me and to her yeah but we can get over it. i mail or this is much better than calling on the phone or sending messages she says it's always so nice to have my letters that makes her want to cry i received my first mail here in the first week of service and i will remember it forever. everyone is rushing home about the jumps it's a real rites of passage here the first time you feel like a power up if i'm honest i'm trying not to think about it too much i've never been particularly happy with heights.

but it's not just the air we have to be at home and there's a special reconnaissance unit assigned to the sea and river missions which might have to gather information or clear mines for following troops and i was invited to an underwater training session. of the instructor uses signals to indicate when the valve is closed he will give a no air signal if you want out of there you look for the nearest partner and take a spare mouthpiece from him you know in this situation that it's important not to panic keep calm and look for a partner. but. everything was going well up to the point we practiced what to do with your runs out you're not supposed to hold your breath while diving but you certainly don't want your lungs to be empty when your supply goes dead. this year. because you'll be under.

enemy take him and lock him. there's also the possibility you might have to engage the enemy so in a scene that reminded me of an old movie i was sort of the basics of underwater find. one quick and permanent way to disable your opponent is to. but of course in the pool you need to make sure you can just regulator back to him quickly. one thing you learn quickly is that life in the video of a is really quiet if it's not just shout you don't want to or one hundred steps. is always the regimental song. at least it comes down a bit in a free sun we still battle mind you although it's a little more mental than physical and we're always finding out new things about

each other. i want to sign a contract. like i didn't expect to like it here so much actually all the men in my family have been in the military so i want to go to military academy to keep doing my military activities. checkmates. congratulations thank you very much i'll have to practice more it played well. my friend alan seems to have mapped out his future most of us are still preparing for a. week from tired to toughen up our feet and then it's on to the trampoline from the center one by one ground. it's anything but bouncy. i should live count down.

yes there will be it can happen while you're airborne that a fellow jumper moves towards you so to avoid collision you have to give a command i command to divert. the outer holding back one soldier push up more and keep your life together. harder harder pole you have to pull yourself up to shoulder level then it'll make sense. but tension please first to how you exit the aircraft information the closer your group the better you should bend your knees slightly like you do on the ramp when you get ready to land and yes yes some are questions you know some right number one hook up and go on. we were ready for a big tests we hope to ourselves up to all model plane and prepared to jump.

i just hoped it was going to go smoothly. so the five hundred one five hundred five hundred three five hundred four five hundred five kind of pay. because those guys. go by so that if you're in your right mind to be scared is that. everyone's afraid. everyone gets scared that's ok but you have to overcome that fear and take that step to jump off the plane properly and wait for your parachute to deploy. and then you'll be overcome with emotion. when you're on guard duty you have plenty of time to watch people and even though

i've seen tempers flare several times the only thing that's been thrown around is some colorful language it seems to have been drummed into the guy is that the man next to you might save your life one day and you need to treat him accordingly. i've been trying to put my faith in a parachute to save my life logically i know it would in reality i'm not so sure. it was time for my last boot camp jump. the exercise in the model plane had gone my cold work but as i saw the ground get further and further away everything became horribly real. even washing someone else was making it easier. i was forty metres up and every fiber of my being was telling me to head straight back down the ladder . just was the most susceptible would have met the plot of the up but after we hook

you you step on the spare bed on my command ready you adopt the stance upon the command go you exit the tower you're reading. the above we think we did. we got to get ready that was probably brown out. good then at least get us lessons this little when you emacs and tower try to turn towards it brian brown come on. already. ready. put your hand on the harness master and you. know. there was a nightmare a one off of my brain saying you've seen it say you train for this and the other screaming at me if you jump on this tower you're going to die.

it. must concentrate as much as possible that your students feel something's holding me it's ok there i don't feel anything it's really frightening. it's just. sort of. hold the button to lower your head. ready. to step with your left foot the one. i really want to. i don't want. someone just like on the thing that i don't know what to do. i hated myself for not being able to jump high hopes i'd get another chance but that was good to have to wait to camp was almost over and i was looking forward to

watching the troops take the pledge of allegiance. not a low power trip or guards. ard. it's a proud moment for the soldiers and their whole families are there to see them i swear to fulfill my military duty honorably defend freedom independence and the russian federation my people in my homeland and bit of a veterans are on hand to offer the new soldiers some words of advice. would i serve the russian federation congratulations and good luck in the paratroopers i wish you good discipline good fighting kit and good studies i serve the russian federation. my wish is for these guys to serve conscientiously. well for the year so that in the event of war. or any other unforeseen circumstances we'll be able to fulfill our combat role.

there's no question my time in boot camp has been the most physically demanding of my life but you quickly feel that you're part of something special. the sense of comradeship is very genuine here even for an outsider. i've got no doubts that in a combat situation these guys would lay down their lives for each other among a group of nonprofessional soldiers many still teenagers that shocked me most of all some of them will stay in to love others like me are destined for regiments around russia. still possible oh get the opportunity to redeem myself but for now i'm on leave. you already know that.

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