"disposable soldier" chapter 2. army idiocy at training ground g. russia. spring of '23. the original can be found here:   e16c9ca9a21c77a2960065ab-applicatio npdf.pdf part 1/? at the next formation, negr announced what we would be doing here. every day we would have military training on the training ground. there would also be duties, but not too many. he promised to grant us leave in turns: three men per day from each platoon. we were delighted and made a leave roster: each of us would be able to see our families within the next ten days. the soldiers started calling home and inviting their relatives to visit. the first group of vacationers wrote their leave requests and set off for the nearby town that evening. but the next day, the situation began to deteriorate. someone didn't return from leave. someone smuggled in vodka. and someone had a baby, and the new father was granted not one day of leave, but ten. the command decided that we were having it too easy and started reducing the leave quota and introducing new rules. now, no one could go on leave until the previous group returned  and they had no intention of returning on time. their first reunion with family in months! naturally, people went and didn't come back for several days, sometimes even weeks... our leave schedule went completely haywire.
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