The word "reserve" in translation from Latin means "to save." In the dictionary, it is explained as follows:
1. Storage resources, stocks or cash that can be used as necessary for certain purposes.
2. A place from where you can take the necessary additional forces or materials.
3. Human resources and part of the army, saved to solve unforeseen tasks and provide assistance to the existing armed forces and navy.
Reserve Army of Russia
The Ministry of Defense is preparing a project to create several reserve armies in the near future. Their personnel will consist of people who continue to work at their enterprises in various positions, but periodically participate in military training. For this they will receive a monthly salary and will have to be ready at the right time to come to the assembly point, get weapons and take part in various kinds of military activities.
These measures will help both reservists and Russian troops to be in good combat readiness. The reserve army will be accordingly trained in the rules of its own defense and in the performance of the necessary military operations.
It will consist only of volunteers whose life has ended. Each reservist is assigned to a specific military unit, a place is assigned to him, and here he undergoes retraining, remembers and improves his combat skills. These people, who have not yet lost their military experience, will perform their duties much better, and their preparedness for exercises or actual military operations will be much higher.
Public Works
When there is a surplus of workers in the country, in other words, there are many unemployed, the so-called reserve army of labor arises. She is pretty disenfranchised, she has no social guarantees, she does not take any serious positions in the market.
During economic stagnation, the labor market constantly replenishes the reserve army. But if various difficulties or force majeure circumstances arise in a country or regions, then this number of free hands can be used to solve industrial problems of any complexity.
Labor reserves are usually recruited for social events. Employers create jobs and registration, and the city administration sets the status and wages.
What military analysts say
It is believed that the contract reserve is a very true approach to military policy. Now in Russia the majority of men undergo military service. This is a very important aspect of social life. The reserve army can facilitate the transition to the refusal of conscription. The advantage of this proposal is that the employees in the reserve can support themselves and not lose their military qualifications through exercises and fees.
According to military analysts, for a full deployment in case of emergency military operations, it is necessary to have in reserve the front of the reserve armies, which includes at least 200 thousand volunteers.
It is planned that a person who enters the service under a contract as a reserve continues to work in a regular enterprise, but about a couple of times a month on weekends he is taken out for military training and twice a year attracted to participate in major exercises.
For all this, he is entitled to a salary and all the benefits enjoyed by ordinary soldiers serving in the state.
To risk the main work during urgent calls, the storekeeper should receive eight to ten thousand rubles a month.
It is estimated that the Russian reserve army will cost the treasury about one and a half billion rubles a year.
Pros and cons of the project
This idea is not new, since many countries have many years of experience creating such units. But first you need to think through the details well, because in addition to the undoubted benefits, this project can bring considerable harm. The Ministry of Defense is not able to track all citizens possessing combat techniques.
There are still employers, private enterprises that may simply disobey orders, and many reservists will have problems associated with being absent from work during training or training camps. What is needed here is a properly designed system, according to which the employee cannot be fired. If this cannot be avoided, the reserve army must issue compensation for the loss of work.
In the image of the army of America
In the United States formed the national guard, which is the country's military reserve. It lists former military personnel who entered into a contract with the Pentagon. They regularly participate in training camps and must attend military training classes once a week.
State governors in which units of the national guard are located may engage them in emergency situations. In these cases, the guards perform the functions of internal troops. By order of the president, the reserve army can be used outside the United States to support the main military forces. For example, about three hundred thousand guards took part in resolving conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The institute of reservists-contractors of Russia is being built almost like the American National Guard.
Reservists of Ukraine
In Ukraine, a decision was made to create regular military formations and a reserve army. And if the National Guard already exists and is financed from the country's treasury, then the URA (Ukrainian Reserve Army) is just beginning its entry into the defense of Ukraine on a voluntary basis. I must say that for the country this is a completely new formation, and it is not yet known whether it is able to help the army in protecting its territory.
Fees and teachings of reservists
Near Kiev, in the village of Kapitanovka, the first training sniper training base “Sniper” was organized, intended for training and military training of reservists. You can get here by leaving a request on the website on Facebook. After registration, you will be given a list of necessary things to take with you, even clothes hanger are included! And it is not necessary for this to be a former military, men and women from 25 to 35 years old are accepted, although volunteers of different ages can be found there. Reservists are people who are basically completely non-military specialties (doctors, programmers, businessmen and others), who came from all over the country. Three days are given for preparation, during which they must get acquainted with combat training, hand-to-hand combat, weapon assembly, and combat firing.
