Diary of a Russian soldier. Андрей Владимирович Устинович

away without explaining anything. They just told me to take the UGC, stockings, gloves and gas masks. We were taken to a classroom where classes were held and told how to use DP-5B and arranged a test. I didn't do a bad job. They also studied the VHPR, a military chemical reconnaissance device. Well, in the evening I joined the day-care outfit in the park.

      Here's how such an outfit goes:

      In total, 3 day workers and a duty officer take over. The task of the day person is to make a detour of the park in 20 minutes. During these 20 minutes, you need to hang tokens of a special color in certain places. In the period from 00 to 20 minutes, red tokens are hung, from 20 to 40 yellow, and from 40 to 00 green. This is done so that the attendant can check whether you are doing your rounds or just sleeping somewhere. The route is actually long and you need to go fast. In total, you need to make 6 laps. That is, you need to walk for 2 hours. 2 other day workers at this time perform the tasks of the duty officer. At night, the second sleeps, and the third sits on duty and, if necessary, lifts the barrier and answers the phone. And every 2 hours we change places. At night, of course, you also need to patrol, many do not do this and take risks. We need to see who is on duty in the park and in the part. If normal men, then you can not patrol, but relax. It is difficult in winter, there is a lot of snow and it is hard to walk. But in the summer I think it will be the most exciting.

      18.01.2018

      I'm on duty, it's 1:15 a.m., everything is fine and I don't want to sleep. The second time I managed to sleep well, I passed out in 2 counts. Vovan woke me up 5 minutes before my shift and I didn't want to get up at all, I didn't immediately understand where I was and what I was doing here. It's really not that bad here, you know what's required of you and you calmly do your job. By the end of the outfit, my legs just fall off, but when I came to the barracks, I abruptly became the most cheerful person on earth.