Like in the army with hazing. Non-statutory titles: features of the informal hierarchy. Spirits in the army

In the army community, as in any social structure there is a certain hierarchy of hazing. It implies a clear delineation of military personnel serving in military service into groups, according to the length of service. Due to the fact that the term of service was reduced to 1 year, hazing ranks were modified, but not abolished. The only difference is that now the entire cycle of passage from the "spirit" to the "grandfather" takes place in the express version. Let's take a closer look at how this happens.

Smell

After the soldier has been selected at the distribution point, he is sent either to the training unit or to the military unit, but to a separate company for quarantine, where he undergoes training.

Arriving at the place, yesterday's conscript becomes a "smell". This title will be assigned to him until the oath is taken.

Quarantine ends no later than two months of military service. What does this title mean? The explanation is very simple, yesterday's conscripts are not yet soldiers, they are just the smells of soldiers. At this time, "smells" and "demobilization" are similar. These army ranks are with one foot on the civilian. While in the unit, many mistakenly think that they automatically become "spirits", but this is not so, this rank still needs to be reached.

Spirit

After taking the oath, when the private already has the right to bear arms and other statutory duties are assigned to him, he is awarded the title "spirit". In that honorary title it will serve up to 100 days of service. During this period, he learns all the delights of army service. Every other day outfits, cleaning and PCBs, this is what the service of a private in this rank consists of.

Cleaning is a separate army ritual. The spirits learn the art of putting things in order in the barracks with special care, but on the other hand, such a necessary skill for life is acquired, how to keep clean in the room in which you live.

Servicemen in this rank have absolutely no rights, and the requirements for them are increased. Especially when it comes to personal hygiene. If the unit is in position, and not at the field exit, then the soldier must be shaved, his shoes must shine, his head must be neatly trimmed. This is very strictly monitored, and those who do not comply with these requirements are treated with special disdain.

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At this time, special attention is paid to memorizing the charter. The soldier must know this set of rules by heart. Therefore, teaching the charter for "spirits" is a habitual occupation. At this time, it is better for young soldiers to stick together, then it will be easier to survive it.

Elephant

After passing 100 days of service, a new period begins in the life of a soldier. From the category of incorporeal "spirits", he passes into the title of "elephant". The title of elephant in the army gives the right to load the soldier with all sorts of assignments.

Household work in the army is the basis of service. Most of the time he is doing some very important work:

• cleans snow on the territory of the unit;
• sweeps the territory in the warm season;
• dripping holes.

Elephants are hardy animals, so the title "elephant" suggests that you will have to carry a lot. There is a certain ritual in which the "demobilization" hits the future elephant on the soft spot with a soldier's belt 3 times, symbolizing 3 months of service.

This title is held by a soldier from 100 to 160 days. Depending on the time of the call, there comes a moment when all the old-timers leave. At this time, the private of the "elephants" is transferred to another rank. For him, the period of "grandfather" begins. This title can be obtained after six months of service.

Grandfather

"Grandfathers" in the army are soldiers who came from the previous call. They become the oldest and remain in this rank until the issuance of an order for dismissal to the reserve for the entire draft. Transfer to this rank is made at the request of a soldier. Usually it comes down to beating a stool on the same soft spots.

At this time, the former "elephant" shows everything that he has accumulated during his service. If a lot of negativity has been accumulated, then the young soldiers get everything that the newly-made "grandfather" is capable of, but if he managed to maintain his decency and adequate condition, then the service goes smoothly.

Some soldiers by this service life have military ranks and responsibility for personnel. It is his sacred duty to follow the passage of the squad, there is nothing left for him to do but to observe the work of young soldiers and count the days until the order.

The order usually comes 100 days before the end of the service life and happens twice a year. Although hazing is no longer as obvious as it was in other years, it still survived in terms of service life.

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Demobilization

This extra-statutory rank is the highest in the army at the moment. This period starts from the moment of the order of the Ministry of Defense for the entire conscription. It continues until the military ID is handed over to the old-timer by the battalion commander.

In some military units there is a tradition to start a personal "spirit" before the end of the service. Smoking "demobilization" invented a kind of calendar. Every day the "spirit" brings him a cigarette, which says how much he still has to serve.

The transfer to this title is peculiar, it differs from previous periods in its loyalty. Instead of a belt and a stool, the former "grandfather" receives cuffs with a thread through a layer of mattresses. He, of course, pretends to be in immense pain, but this custom is not in all parts.

the main task servicemen in this rank deserve to serve until the end of their service. He may be offered to make a “demobilization chord”, something useful for the company or the entire unit in which he served for a whole year. Another important thing for him is the preparation of the form. You can, of course, go home in civilian life, but it’s better to come to nice shape, with all insignia. So they spend the rest of their time on this issue. The main task of a soldier who has one foot on a civilian is to serve this time with dignity and calmly leave for demobilization.

Transfer to this category of military personnel for Soviet soldier meant the beginning of a fundamentally new stage in the service - "grandfathers" de jure became the uncrowned leaders of an army or navy unit.

Thread instead of a belt

“Grandfather” is a soldier who served for a year and a half. Army wits translated this word as an abbreviation of "Dembel's Going Home." The "grandfathers" must necessarily have "their" call of "spirits". As soon as newcomers came to the company, the process of transferring to "grandfathers" from "scoops" began. And if a soldier’s belt with a badge (and sometimes a real scoop taken from the kitchen) was initiated into “scoops”, then the transfer to “grandfathers” was a purely symbolic transitional rite.

In form, the transfer to “grandfathers” resembled the ritual “flogging” of candidates for “scoops”. True, there were significant differences. When transferred to the “scoops”, the soldier was beaten as many times as he had months left before demobilization. And they beat with a badge most often from the heart. dedicated for a long time couldn't sit. If the "scoop" uttered at least a sound during the execution, the translation was considered invalid.

The future "grandfather" lay on his stomach, a pillow was placed on his buttocks. They were beaten with a thread, and the “grandfather” had to yell at the top of his lungs (supposedly from pain). If the translation procedure went as expected, "grandfather" was considered "correct". Otherwise, the old-timer received the semi-contemptuous status of a “non-spontaneous” “grandfather”, at whom even “scoops” and “spirits” laughed.

Oil - "spirits"

The translated “grandfather” was supposed to confess “hundred days” (one hundred days before the order to dismiss his conscription). In the dining room, this was expressed in the fact that the “grandfathers” gave their oil to the “spirits”. At the same time, the “spirit” always said how much “grandfather” was left to serve. If the “young” made a mistake, he did not receive oil, instead he was “sold” with cuffs so that he would not be forgotten in the future. In different army and navy units of the USSR, this ritual was observed differently. In some places, he looked like this: “grandfather”, after receiving an answer about the rest of his service life, wrote this figure with a spoon handle on a sandwich and ate a piece of bread and butter. Then he cut off another centimeter from the tailor's meter, which was specially reserved for this occasion. This ritual meant that the “grandfather” had “a day passed”.

In some departments Soviet army"grandfathers" in the "hundred days" shaved baldly, like "spirits".

When was evening verification, called “grandfather” during the roll call, said the number (the number of days before the “demobilization”) - “yak” for an old-timer was considered bad form.

“Paper” “grandfathers” were considered university graduates who were called up for a year (they served in the Soviet army for two years, and in the navy for three). According to army concepts, such a warrior should have received the status of "grandfather" after six months of service. They were drafted into the army until the age of 27, and if the age of a serviceman exceeded a quarter of a century, he was called "grandfather in kind." As a rule, the old-timers did not touch such people.

Garmash injured the "grandfather", and Nagiyev was beaten off by the kidneys

Hazing, which began to manifest itself in parts of the Soviet army and navy in the 60-70s of the twentieth century, was not everywhere, therefore, there was a strict hierarchy in terms of service, with the transfer of a soldier to one or another social level, depending on who served how long, in there were no separate Soviet military units.

Domestic celebrities who have gone through an army school most often mention this manifestation of hazing in passing or do not speak at all. For example, parodist Alexander Peskov said in an interview that during his service, “baptisms of fire” of “spirits” looked more like a game than bullying. But the actor Sergei Garmash in the army so marked the “grandfather” that he thundered into a disbat.

by the most frank confessions about service in the Soviet army, the stories of actor Dmitry Nagiyev, replete with shocking details, look like. Master of sports in sambo Nagiyev ended up in the unit where 60% of the natives served Central Asia plus Georgians and Azerbaijanis. Dmitry's sports training not only did not help him protect himself - according to famous actor and a TV presenter, he was often severely beaten precisely because of the desire to check what kind of sambo wrestler he was. From the army, according to Dmitry Nagiyev, he came with crumbled teeth and broken kidneys.

There was no question of any status "spirit" - "scoop" - "grandfather" in such units, where immigrants from the Central Asian and North Caucasian republics predominated - soldier groups were formed there according to the principle of compatriots. Russian soldiers, who were in the minority, served extremely hard in such units.

We all know how hard it is to Russian army because of the hazing there. Someone was simply beaten half to death, and someone was even driven to suicide. Grandfathers mock recruits and the saddest thing is that all this happens with the permission of the officers. Also, the situation with hazing is aggravated from year to year due to national hatred within the army. Read more creepy stories soldiers who became victims of hazing. Not for the faint of heart.

Anton Porechkin. Athlete, team member Trans-Baikal Territory in weightlifting. He served on Iturup Island (Kurils), military unit 71436. On October 30, 2012, at the 4th month of service, he was beaten to death by drunken grandfathers. 8 blows with a sapper shovel, little was left of the head.

Ruslan Aiderkhanov. From Tatarstan. Drafted into the army in 2011, he served in military unit 55062 in the Sverdlovsk region. Three months later, he was returned to his parents like this:

Traces of beatings, an eye was knocked out, limbs were broken. According to the military, Ruslan caused all this to himself when he tried to hang himself on a tree not far from the unit.

Dmitry Bochkarev. From Saratov. On August 13, 2012, he died in the army after many days of sadistic bullying by his colleague Ali Rasulov. The latter beat him, forced him to sit for a long time on half-bent legs with his arms outstretched forward, striking him if he changed his position. Also, by the way, Sergeant Siviakov mocked Private Andrei Sychev in Chelyabinsk in 2006. Sychev then had both legs and genitals amputated, but he remained alive. But Dmitry was brought home in a coffin.

Before the army, Ali Rasulov studied at a medical school, so he decided to practice on Dmitry as a doctor: he cut out cartilage tissue from his nose with nail scissors, damaged during beatings, sewed up tears in his left ear with a utility needle and thread. “I don’t know what came over me. I can say that Dmitry annoyed me by not wanting to obey me,” Rasulov said at the trial.

Dmitry annoyed him by not wanting to obey...

Taking into account the fact that Rasulov conducted sadistic experiments on the victim for 1.5 months and tortured her to death, the sentence Russian court a sadist should be considered ridiculous: 10 years in prison and 150 thousand rubles to the parents of the murdered. type compensation.

Alexander Cherepanov. From the village of Vaskino, Tuzhinsky district, Kirov region. Served in military unit 86277 in Mari El. In 2011, he was brutally beaten for refusing to deposit 1,000 rubles. on the phone of one of the grandfathers. Then he hanged himself in the back room (according to another version, he was hanged dead in order to simulate suicide). In 2013, Jr. would have been sentenced to 7 years in this case. Sergeant Peter Zavyalov. But not for murder, but under the articles "Extortion" and "Exceeding official powers."

Nikolai Cherepanov, the father of a soldier: “We sent such a son to the army, but they returned him to us ...”
Nina Konovalova, grandmother: "I began to put a cross on him, I see - he is covered in wounds, bruises, bruises, and his head is all broken ...". Ali Rasulov, cutting cartilage from Dima Bochkarev's nose, did not know "what came over me." And what happened to Peter Zavyalov, who for 1000 rubles. scored another Russian guy in the army - Sasha Cherepanov?

Roman Kazakov. From the Kaluga region In 2009 a recruit of the 138th motorized rifle brigade (Leningrad region) Roma Kazakov was brutally beaten by contractors. But apparently they overdid it. The victim lost consciousness. Then they decided to stage special case. The soldier, they say, was asked to repair the car, and he died in the garage from exhaust gases. They put Roman in a car, closed it in the garage, turned on the ignition, covered the car with an awning to guarantee it... It turned out to be a gas wagon.

But Roman is not dead. Poisoned, fell into a coma, but survived. And after a while he spoke. For 7 months, the mother did not leave her son, who became disabled ...

Larisa Kazakova, mother of a soldier: "In the prosecutor's office, I met with Sergei Ryabov (this is one of the contract soldiers - ed.), and he said - I was forced to beat recruit soldiers. Battalion commander Bronnikov beat off my hands with a ruler, I have a criminal record, my conviction was not canceled until 2011, I could not act otherwise, and had to follow the order of the battalion commander ".

The case was closed, information about hematomas disappeared from the soldier’s medical documents, the car (evidence) suddenly burned down a month later. The contractors were fired, the battalion commander remained to serve further.

Roman Suslov. From Omsk. Drafted into the army on May 19, 2010. The photo below was taken at the train station before boarding the train. He had a son of one and a half years. To the duty station (Bikin, Khabarovsk region) did not arrive. On May 20, he told his family in SMS about bullying on the train by an officer and an ensign who accompanied the conscripts. On the morning of May 21 (on the second day in the army) he sent an SMS: "They will kill me or leave me disabled." May 22 - hanged himself (according to the military). There were marks of beatings on the body. Relatives demanded a re-examination of the causes of death. The military prosecutor's office refused.

Vladimir Slobodyannikov. From Magnitogorsk. Called up in 2012. Served in military unit 28331 in Verkhnyaya Pyshma (the same place in the Urals). At the very beginning of the service he stood up for another young soldier who was bullied. What caused the fierce hatred of grandfathers and officers. On July 18, 2012, after 2 months in the army, he called his sister and said: "Valya, I can't take it anymore. They will kill me at night. That's what the captain said." That same evening he hanged himself in the barracks.

Pechenga, Murmansk region 2013

200th motorized rifle brigade. Two Caucasians mock a Russian guy.

Unlike Caucasians, Russians, as always, are atomized. Not in solidarity. Rather, they themselves will mock the younger conscription than help someone in the lawlessness of national minorities. The officers also behave as they once did in the tsarist army. "Dogs and lower ranks are forbidden entry" signs hung in the parks of Kronstadt and St. Petersburg, i.e. the officers did not seem to consider themselves and the lower classes as one nation. Then, of course, the sailors, without regrets, drowned their nobles in the Gulf of Finland and cut them to pieces in 1917, but what has changed?

Vyacheslav Sapozhnikov. From Novosibirsk. In January 2013, he jumped out of the window of the 5th floor, unable to bear the harassment of the Tuvan community in military unit 21005 (Kemerovo region). Tuvans are a small people of the Mongoloid race in the south of Siberia. The current Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu S.K. - also a Tuvan.

Ilnar Zakirov. From Perm Territory. On January 18, 2013, he hanged himself in military unit 51460 (Khabarovsk Territory), unable to withstand many days of bullying and beatings.

For bringing to suicide, sergeants Ivan Drobyshev and Ivan Kraskov were arrested. In particular, as the military investigators reported: "...Junior sergeant Drobyshev in the period from December 2012 to January 18, 2013 systematically humiliated the human dignity of the deceased, repeatedly used physical violence against him and made illegal demands for the transfer of funds."

Systematically humiliated the human dignity of the deceased. The system is like that, so what can you do. The army is just a special case of the general lack of rights in the country.

A -
Axel - aglet, wicker pendant.

B -
Babos - money.
Bucks are money.
Balabas - some kind of food, often something very tasty, but when you want to eat, then any food! The origin of the word can only be guessed at.
Balabasit - eat, eat, take food.
Bardak - BRDM - combat reconnaissance and patrol vehicle.
Beluga - underwear - shirt and underpants.
Without fawn - secretly, imperceptibly, observing conspiracy and maintaining the effect of surprise.
The beaver is a morally and physically downtrodden soldier. The beaver is always sloppily dressed, dirty and prone to humiliation. In the Navy, a beaver is a sailor before taking the Oath.
Bolts - barley porridge, due to its high taste and nutritional qualities, is very "adored" by the personnel of the RF Armed Forces.
Armored - tankers.
Paper Grandfather - that is, not real. After graduating from higher educational institution, "towers". A soldier called up for a year and after six months of service becomes a paper grandfather.
Boomer - BMP, Fighting machine Infantry.
Bems is the combat vehicle of the duty unit.
Beters - linen lice - from the word armored personnel carrier, as they resemble the Combat Reconnaissance Transporter in shape. Linen lice appear if a soldier does not change his underwear for a long time and does not wash. Easily carried and moved from the clothes of one soldier to the clothes of a nearby soldier. Hot spots are often the source of distribution, where soldiers do not have the opportunity to wash and take care of their clothes. The soldier method is removed by heat treatment of all folds on linen and uniforms (for example, using an iron), as well as by boiling or steaming linen and uniforms. It is also necessary to shave the hair under the armpits and on the groin, where the Baters lay their eggs.
Beha - BMP (Infantry Fighting Vehicle).

IN -
Varkul - a palm strike to the neck.
Vzletka - the central passage in the barracks.
Get stuck - get into trouble, get an unwanted job, get into a mess, and the like.
Get on skis - make an escape, leave without permission military unit, to desert.
To rub - to say something convincingly, to prove one's point of view to someone.
Vtutuhat - the expression describes all the problems of soldiers with a short service life. Constantly work, humiliate yourself, fulfill the whims of the senior call.
Vyalitsya - do nothing, sit back, relax.
Pass out - fall asleep soundly.
Tower - higher education, higher education institution.

G -
To drive - confidently tell a lie, lie to someone.
Granik - grenade launcher.
Guba - a guardhouse - a place of serving a sentence, something like a punishment cell.
Goose - pull a hundred days.

D -
Put pressure on the mass - sleep soundly.
Give slack - relax, forget about responsibilities.
Grandfather is a soldier who has less than half a year left until the end of his service.
Grandfather in kind - a soldier in the junior conscription, whose age is more than 25 years old at the time of conscription into the army.
Hazing is the principle of relationships in a military team, according to which senior soldiers have more privileges than junior soldiers.
Demobilization is the Grandfather who will be transferred to the reserve in the coming months. From the word demobilization, transfer to the reserve.
Wooden demobilization - that is, not real. After graduating from higher education
institutions, "towers". A soldier called up for a year and already after nine months
service becoming a Wooden demobilization.
Dembelskaya porridge, Dembelyukha - a dish of cookies, condensed milk and something else sweet.
Dembel chord - this means that Dembel, before leaving home, will need to do something useful for the company or military unit. Usually exactly what they have learned to do well during the service.
The demobilization lump is a very beautifully designed uniform that Dembel makes in order to boast at home that he served in the Army.
Extract asphalt - clear the parade ground from snow.
Spirit - a soldier with a service life of up to six months (from taking the Oath). Transcription - Home Terribly Want. In the Navy - Karas.
Dukhanka - a period for a soldier, while he is considered a Spirit.

AND-
Blow up - blow up.

Z -
To score - to be indifferent, to show negligence, not to pay attention.
Shave - deprive.
Driven, Driven - come up with something unusual, at first glance stupid (to those who are driven, this idea never seems stupid), delve into reflections or into some kind of creative thought.
To suffocate - to fall asleep, usually for a short time.
Castle - deputy platoon commander.
Flying - a violation of some grandfather's law, rule, custom, and so on, as a rule, carries a punishment.
To sulk is to refuse to do something.
The smell is a soldier before taking the Oath.
Refueling - stall (outside the territory of the unit).
Zasharitsya - several options: 1. Get a job where no one drives in the neck, no one vows, does not stand over the soul. 2. Rest while everyone is working. 3. Get civilian food. 4. And in general, to get what brings joy in army life.
Zold is a soldier (from the lips of officers).

AND -
Words have not yet been remembered!

TO -
Calabashka - a blow to the neck with the palm of your hand.
Kalich - sick, usually someone who is constantly sick or pretends to be sick. From the word feces (poop).
Kaptyorka - a room where the personal belongings of all soldiers are stored, as a rule, they are not stored there for a long time, they are stolen.
Corporal - in some military units, the unofficial title of a junior sergeant, as a rule, is used disparagingly to him.
Quarantine - the course of a young fighter, the period while all newly drafted soldiers are driven by drill, forced to learn the charter, walk in pack, conduct all sorts of exercises: getting up on an alarm, shooting, and so on, starts from the moment of the call and lasts until the oath or longer - from 2 -x weeks to 4 months.
Swing or pumping is an intense, meaningless exercise to the physical and moral exhaustion of "athletes".
swing - perform physical exercise in huge numbers, most often under duress by senior soldiers.
To throw - to deceive someone without fulfilling their part of the promise or contract.
Komodo is the squad leader.
Lump is a uniform camouflage suit. Lumps are "glass", "birch", "watermelon", "dirty snow", "wave", "raincoat fabric" and many others. They are divided according to the quality of the fabric, color, direction of the stripes.
Kompot - regiment commander.
Double bass - a contract soldier, appeared in connection with the transition to a contract.
Mower - 1000 rubles.
To mow - to make mistakes, to do something wrong.
Kosepor, joint - one who often mows.
Cardan is a car depot employee.
Rat (close) - a greedy soldier who hides and does not share anything with anyone. A soldier caught stealing.
A piece is an ensign.

L -
Sheet - 100 rubles.
Fly - pull a hundred days.
Lobar - a slap with the palm of the spelled.
Lyulya is an ordinary bed for sleeping.
A skier is a soldier who left the military unit without permission, a deserter.
Badge - a small strip on shoulder straps: 1 badge - corporal, 2 stripes - junior sergeant, 3 stripes - sergeant and so on. A large number of The lychek gives the right to walk next to a crowd of soldiers, and yell at them to keep pace.

M-
Mabuta - motorized rifle troops.
Matsubarit - smoking.
Mechan, mechanic - driver mechanic.
Mobile - cellular telephone, mobile rapid response company.
Murlocatans are an endearing appeal to soldiers.
Fly slayers are anti-aircraft gunners.
Matl, Motolyga - light armored multi-purpose tractor, initially and correctly - MT-LB, however said words firmly entered into use.

H -
Strain - loads, constant burdens and hardships.
Underweight - a soldier with a deficient body weight, who was put on enhanced nutrition.
Lack - a constantly hungry soldier who is always short of food and always wants to eat them.

ABOUT -
OZK - Combined Arms Protective Kit.
Monkey - a soldier, from the lips of officers.
To puzzle is the same as to order, but in the language of soldiers. They are usually puzzled by something complex and difficult to accomplish.
Deer is a dumb soldier.
Fight back - go to sleep.
To smear - to skillfully help someone avoid punishment or an unpleasant situation, unnecessary work.
To be fascinated - to think, to forget for a while.

P -
Palevo - the threat of revealing the secret. Sudden threat.
Pepper - this is the name of the soldiers who put themselves higher than they should be in terms of service life.
The dog is an employee of guard units, respectfully.
A jacket is an officer serving on conscription, after graduating from a university in which there was a military department, as a rule, personnel and regular officers have a sharp dislike for the "jacket".
Flattening (wetting) a mug is the same as pinching, that is, sleeping without pale.
To shave - to make someone hope for something, and then not live up to his expectations.
Fitting (fitting) - a gift (give).
Hemming - a collar, a strip of white fabric that is sewn on the collar of a tunic or simply on the collar of a garment. Serves for the prevention of hygiene of the surface of the skin in contact with clothing.
Catch the silence - shut up.
Buyer - this is the name of a person who recruits and accompanies a team to places of further service, usually in the rank of officer
Confuse - 1. Experience shock. 2. Get out of hand (be impudent).
Porthoses - footcloths.
Get lost (get lost) - in a short time to disappear somewhere, disappear from the eyes of the one who ordered.
The order is the day when Dedov will be transferred to the reserve.
Prikolyuha - a joke, a funny thing, a funny incident.
To pierce the soul (ballast, pierce plywood) - hit in the chest.
To pierce - to lose something.
Proshareny - smart, cunning, thoughtful, taught by bitter experience.
Gingerbread (zampushka) - a palm strike on the forehead, with a slap.

R -
Relax - relax.
Rubber day - Wednesday, the day of RKhBZ (Radiation-Chemical-Biological Protection).
Give birth (generate) - find, get. Time to find something.
Cuts (cuts me) - strongly tends to sleep. Possible not arbitrary falling asleep "on the go".
To steer - to command.

WITH -
Salaga is a young, inexperienced soldier.
Self-propelled - leave the unit without permission, go AWOL.
The swineherd is an employee of the support company.
Two hundred - means the death of a person or the breakdown of some thing.
Simulator - one who pretends to be sick, pretends to be sick.
To communize is to borrow something without permission.
A violinist is a soldier who is suicidal or has already attempted suicide.
An elephant is a soldier with a service life of six months to a year. Decryption - Soldier Loving Awesome Loads. In the Navy - Vigorous crucian.
Elephant - a period for a soldier, while he is considered an Elephant.
Elephant radio - false information, unjustified rumors, an empty promise, not true.
SOC (leave in socha) - Unauthorized Abandonment of the Part (arbitrarily leave the part).
Stodnevka - the period of service 100 days before the release of the Order.
Arrow - a secret meeting of colleagues to resolve a controversial issue.
Squealer, bitch - I think there is no need to explain ...
Snot - the same as Lychka, that is, a strip of military distinction on the pursuit.
Sochinets - a serviceman who left his unit without permission.
Burn a chip - notice that something is happening.
Sleep - become noticeable, lose secrets and secrets.
Chest - ensign.

T -
Taski - also that it dries, does not do anything, from the word "dragging". In the sense of resting when others are working.
To trudge - to enjoy something, to have fun.
body is alive combat unit, unit. A unit of quantitative measurement of subordinate personnel.
Brake - a soldier who incorrectly follows orders or correctly, but slowly.
Tochevo (to sharpen) - food, take food.
A tracer is a soldier sent somewhere, for something. It came from the name of the bullet, which glows during the flight, is used for night firing practice, a tracer bullet.
Trindets is the final and irrevocable end, the tragic culmination of the action.
The torso is a soldier with a short service life, offensive.
Pulling an elephant - pulling a hundred days.

U -
Dismissal - a dismissal ticket.
Ustavshchina is a variant of the corporal-sergeant hazing.
Umiralovka - punishment for flying, can be both to one and to all at once.
Charter - in addition to the generally accepted concept (code of military laws), it is also cigarettes that are issued to soldiers (charter cigarettes).

F -
Fibring means hardening the chevrons and all the different patches to make them look cooler.
Chip (stand on the chip) - make sure that no one notices anything.

X -
The trunk is the nose of a soldier with a short service life.
The hamster is a greedy soldier who hides everything and shares only with "his own". A soldier seen in the habit of stocking up for a rainy day.

C -
Integrity - accuracy.
Tsentryak - the central passage in the barracks (take-off).

H -
Chapala - In everything, an unsightly, sloppy fighter. Often they call those who have a dressed uniform 2-3 sizes larger and weigh a bag.
Scoop, skull - a soldier with a service life of a year to a year and a half. Decryption - Man Daily Destroying Peace of the Army Barracks. In the Navy - Godok.
Chipok - a soldier's tea room, a cafe on the territory of a military unit.
Chushin - untidy, dirty, sloppy, worn out and so on.

W -
Jackals - officers and ensigns, from the lips of privates and sergeants, disrespectfully.
Shisharik - car GAZ-66.
Shkonka - bed.
Shmon - a sudden and thorough check.
Screws - all the soldiers from the lips of the border guards, except for the border guards, of course.
Rustle - work actively.
Shukher - a sudden threat of revealing a secret.

SCH -
Swallow (boil, boil) - doze off, sleep without pale, that is, imperceptibly for those who can interfere with sleep.

E -
Equator (spirit day) - half a hundred days. Only 50 days left to order!
Electric train - a tangible blow to the shin, is used to improve the quality of training in drill training.

YU -
Yuzat - use.

I -
Anchor is a soldier who constantly slows down, blunts, incapable of learning.

Soldiers in the army have their own hierarchy, their own unofficial ranks and promotion career ladder. Growing up to the "grandfather" is not only to rewind the prescribed two years of service, but also to go through a whole series of rites and initiations: after all, even before dismissal, you can still remain a disenfranchised "spirit" if you do not follow the unwritten laws.

The first six months in the army of soldiers - absolutely no one. "Spirit" is incorporeal. Salaga. "Lace" ... True, successfully passed the "first baptism" can greatly facilitate the life of a recruit. In some parts, this rite is called "candle", in others - "enema". The essence of this test is the same: the fighters who swore allegiance to the Motherland during the day on the parade ground at night in the barracks hold a severe exam. With a pod of red pepper inserted between the buttocks, they should lie quietly all night. To "grandfathers" means not to wake up and not to disturb.

If in the morning the subject demonstrates an unextracted peppercorn and is able to walk, then he is awarded the title of "pepper". If he cannot or, God forbid, tries to feign, then he will remain a "spirit", whose destiny is to wash socks for "grandfathers" and fill other people's beds.

The second rite of initiation awaits the young soldier after six months of service: "grandfathers" solemnly transfer him to the category of "skull". Salaga is placed on a stool in the middle of the barracks or laid face down on the bed. They lower their pants and ... they just hit the soft spot with a soldier's badge. At the end of the ritual, the buttock turns into a solid hematoma with traces of twenty-four stars: the "grandfathers" beat with all their might - a year ago they themselves went through this test. Now the initiate acquires new rights and opportunities. He himself can scare the "spirits" and receives concessions from the elders.

Six months later, the "skull" becomes a "scoop" - in the same manner, but it receives half as many blows, and not with such force. They beat not with a badge, but with a ladle, dragged from the dining room in advance. They say that this tradition came from the fleet: the cook had assistants, whom he beat with a scoop just below the back for various offenses.

Having exchanged a year and a half of service, you become a "grandfather" - a barracks demigod. You can have fun with the young yourself from boredom: after all, the "grandfather" is not burdened with work and service. During the day he can sleep off in the supply room, and at night he can joke. For example, look at the "bicycle": a sleeping soldier is inserted between the toes of matches or pieces of cotton wool and set on fire. The poor fellow jerks his legs in pain, and the "grandfather" laughs: it looks like he is pedaling.

Even "grandfathers" like to "dry the crocodile." This is when the "spirit", catching hands and feet on the back of the bed, hangs over the merry fellow lying below. He can tickle and kick with his foot - the "crocodile" must hold on, no matter what. Otherwise, severe punishment awaits him. They can make a "moose" (the recruit brings his palms together on his forehead, and the "grandfather" beats him on the "horns"), they can "release a thrush" (they beat him in chest sometimes by foot). Some "grandfathers" force "spirits" to "watch TV". The soldier stands on half-bent legs, holding a stool in his outstretched arms, on which stands a three-liter jar of water. This is the "TV" (you still need to retell what is shown there). "Telecast" is designed for 5-10 minutes, but, as a rule, no one can stand more than three. And this is fraught with "elk" or "thrush" ...

There are also peaceful entertainments in the army. Most often they play "demobilization train". All night long, three young soldiers are courting the "grandfather", who is supposedly going home. One shakes the bunk, making the sound of train wheels clattering. The second runs around the bed with a flashlight and a branch, imitating the landscape flickering outside the window. The third plays the role of a conductor: straightens the blanket, fluffs up the pillow, brings tea and cigarettes, sings lullabies. If the "grandfather" is hot, then they fan him with a newspaper, if it's cold, they cover him with a blanket. In the morning, the passenger of the "demobilization train" is greeted with a bouquet of field daisies and with a cheerful song.

Sometimes the "grandfather" awakened by someone's snoring opens the "hunting season". One of the young soldiers is ordered to "kill the tiger". Armed with a pillow, the “hunter” sneaks up to the snorer with all precautions and with a loud cry beats his “weapon” on the head, after which he hides under the bed. A report follows from there: "Comrade "grandfather", "tiger" is killed. Allow me to go to sleep? .. "

In the tank troops, "grandfathers" teach the young to drive "tanks" at night. "Spirits" crawl under the beds with a piece tank caterpillar- by a truck - and they hum and rumble funny, like a tank diesel engine. Sometimes they are forced to arrange "shooting" and "frontal attacks": from the outside it looks funny.

IN landing troops The game of "wrecked plane" is very popular. The "grandfather" lying on the bed of the lower tier is watching the "battlefield", the "airplane" itself is arranged on the upper one. Another recruit "shoots" from a stool at upper tier: "Ta-ta-ta-ta ...". "Knocked down!" - shouts the "old man" and kicks the net with a mattress over his head. "Airplane" rapidly dives down and, when it hits the floor, loudly shouts: "Bang!" The stool gunner reports: "Comrade" grandfather "! The enemy plane was shot down on your orders. There are no losses among the personnel ..."

In some parts of the "laces" they are forced to work at night as "hairdressers" - to make fashionable hairstyles for lawns. "Hedgehog" must be strictly defined height, say, 2.3 centimeters. Soldiers are armed with rulers, scissors and combs: if you make a mistake, you can get new task- clean the parade ground with toothbrushes ...

When 100 days remain before the demobilization order, the final dedication comes: the "grandfather" is transferred to the "demobilization". He is carefully placed on the bed and beaten six times in the causal place ... with a thread. Now, every evening after lights out, one of the young soldiers will climb onto the bedside table and crow from there to the entire barracks: "Demobilization has become a day shorter, to all" grandfathers " Good night" Soon "grandfathers" home - in ordinary life without military eccentricities.