Contract service is a military activity for the benefit of the country's armed forces, carried out on a completely voluntary basis. This is a kind of “work”, which as a reward implies a stable salary, a full package of social benefits, as well as other (usually monetary) incentives. Just like, a special contract is concluded with a contract employee, valid for a strictly specified period.
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Of course, not every citizen who wants to become a military personnel will be able to sign such an agreement. What are the requirements for contract workers in our country? What are the general pros and cons of the described “work activity”? And finally, what are your personal chances of becoming a contract soldier? Let's find out!
Contract service is a voluntary choice
Contract service is a rather specific type of activity. By concluding the corresponding agreement, you automatically sign up for a certain list of conditions established at the legislative level. What are these requirements?
According to the Law “On Military Duty” and a special set of rules from the country’s Ministry of Defense, only a person can become a contract soldier:
- is a citizen of the Russian Federation;
- who have reached the age of 18 (but not older than 40 years);
- having at least secondary education;
- has passed the appropriate medical commission and, based on its results, has been assigned to group “A” (“fit”) or “B” (“fit with minor restrictions”);
- corresponds to the standards regarding physical fitness approved in the NPF-2009;
- having no restrictions on professional suitability.
If we talk specifically about the categories of persons allowed to serve under a contract, they can be very different. These include men who have previously been in the service (fixed-term or contract), and women with proper training, and even citizens designated as “reserves”. A complete list of categories of persons admitted to contract service can be found in the regulatory documents. In particular, in the Law “On Military Duty” (Article 34).
How to apply for contract service?
Girls are also recruited for contract service
To register your interest in becoming a contractor, visit your local recruiting office. It is there that you will be able to receive full-fledged consulting support on your issue, and therefore information about what you should do next.
In particular, you will be provided with a complete list of vacancies available to you and given a letter of recommendation, which you will then need to present at the local commissariat.
All you need to have with you to complete the application is. By presenting this document, as well as the already mentioned letter of recommendation at the military commissariat, you will receive a sample on which you will have to write your appeal. Once your application has been reviewed, you will be assigned dates for inspections and other activities necessary to determine your readiness for contract service.
If your health and physical fitness indicators are sufficient, you will be issued a visa. After this final step, you will be awarded a contract to serve in the Armed Forces. Now, all you have to do is take an intensive course of combined arms training. For this purpose, you will be sent to the nearest military training unit. During the training process, you will have to demonstrate not only your physical and professional, but also your personal qualities from the best side.
After all, representatives of the unit’s command staff will closely monitor the preparation process. It is they who will appreciate your ability to take on the role of leader, without which advancement through contract service will simply be impossible. If the results of the observations satisfy the command, upon completion of training you will be immediately sent to your place of further service.
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How much do contract workers earn?
Of course, any citizen entering contract service will be primarily interested in the issue of his own material remuneration. How much do they get? This figure may vary. Thus, for contract workers, the salary amount is calculated in accordance with two main documents.
These are the Federal Law “On Salary of Military Personnel” and the Government Decree “On Salary for Military Personnel Serving under Contract”. Thus, the basic salary of a contract employee is, as it were, “composed” of two parts - salaries by position and by rank. In addition, numerous allowances are regularly added to this amount, for example:
- for qualifications;
- by length of service;
- for risk to health or life;
- for special conditions of service;
- for involvement in state secrets;
- for significant achievements in the military field;
- for knowledge of a foreign language;
- for a high level of physical fitness (awarded upon regular passing of the relevant standards.
In addition, at the initiative of management, a contract employee may be given a bonus. Thus, usually remuneration is given to those individuals who cope “excellently” with all the official responsibilities assigned to them. In addition, absolutely any contract employee can count on regular payments according to the EDV (that is, annual).
If we talk about specific figures, then, according to data for 2016, the monthly salary of the average contract worker was:
- 30 thousand rubles - for a private;
- 40 thousand rubles - for a sergeant or sergeant major;
- 55 thousand rubles - for a lieutenant.
Salaries and salaries
The salary of a serviceman under a contract consists of:
- salary for a military position. The minimum position held by a contract soldier is a rifleman. At the moment, the salary for it is about 11,000 rubles;
- payments for military rank. The amount received by the holder of the lowest rank of private is about 6,000 rubles;
- additional payments. There are at least several of them;
- bonuses. Monthly and annual bonuses are awarded by the unit commander;
- increasing coefficients in areas with difficult service conditions.
The average salary received by an ordinary contract soldier serving in Armenia is about 30,000 rubles.
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About social benefits for contract workers
Contract workers are supported by the state
In addition to wages, military personnel serving under contract can also count on certain benefits and material compensation. What exactly “bonuses” are we talking about? Any contract worker can apply for:
- monthly compensation payments in the amount of about 15 thousand rubles (in case of non-provision of a service apartment);
- a one-time “lift” cash allowance when moving to a new duty station (the amount may vary depending on the number of family members of the employee);
- a one-time payment in the amount of 7 regular salaries for service of 20 years or more (or 2 salaries in the absence of such impressive length of service).
In addition, contract workers are entitled to a fairly large package of various social benefits. In particular, we are talking about the following pleasant “bonuses”:
- free medical care in specialized institutions for the military;
- (providing a service apartment, military mortgage, housing certificates, etc.);
- early pension (at 45 years of age, with 20 years of service);
- when enrolling in vocational educational institutions;
- food supply;
- provision of military uniforms;
- free health and life insurance (including post-death benefits to military families);
- free travel on public transport.
In addition, contract soldiers may be provided with some additional benefits related directly to the place of their service.
Military personnel assigned to the Far North are given the right to use air, rail, and other ground transport free of charge to get to the place of their legal vacation. And this is just one of many similar examples.
Contract service
Contract servicemen perform essentially the same duties as conscripts. They have to:
- protect the Russian Federation, its state interests and territorial integrity, Russian citizens;
- unquestioningly carry out the orders of commanders and superiors;
- comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, its laws, military regulations;
- wield weapons and military equipment at a high professional level.
At the same time, the legal status of contract soldiers differs for the better from the legal status of soldiers undergoing military service. Contract servicemen:
- may retire earlier. The length of service to receive an early pension must be 20 years;
- receive cash allowance. They do not pay taxes on their salary and additional payments;
- have the right to receive office housing. If there is no free living space, the contract employee is paid a compensation payment for renting out housing. After concluding the second contract, the serviceman receives the right to purchase housing through the savings-mortgage system. In another way it is called a military mortgage. The state pays interest for the military man who uses it.
Conscripts do not have all these benefits.
About the advantages and disadvantages of contract service
Contract service without compulsory service: there are both pros and cons
It should be noted right away that military service under contract is a fairly new phenomenon for Russia. So, it is quite natural that such an activity will be distinguished not only by a large number of advantages, but also by simply a huge number of different “shortcomings” and shortcomings.
What are the main positive and negative aspects that you will encounter in contract service? The obvious disadvantages of such activities include:
- increased risk to the health (and often life) of the employee;
- significant restrictions on freedom of movement, as well as personal space;
- the need to strictly follow the regulations and, often, absurd instructions from the command (and the moral overstrain that naturally follows);
- forced cessation of some “unhealthy” habits (in particular, drinking alcohol);
- frequent (sometimes with the need to live in the field).
However, one cannot fail to mention some undeniable advantages that contract service provides:
- quick solution to employment problems (which is especially important for residents of small towns and villages);
- stable wages even during an economic crisis;
- great ;
- significant benefits when obtaining housing.
To summarize, we can say that contract service is a fairly promising solution for the RF Armed Forces. As for the citizens themselves who agree to such activities, they receive enormous advantages over many of their compatriots.
Moreover, we are talking not only about material support and benefits, but also about something more important from a social point of view. Thus, today the term “contract service” is firmly associated in the minds of Russians with the words “respect”, “nobility” and “prestige”.
However, when agreeing to this type of activity, you must remember the enormous burden imposed on you at the time of signing the contract. After all, from now on you will be forced to take care not only of your own well-being. You will have the responsibility to protect not only your life, but also the lives of your comrades, as well as all those citizens who live today in the vast territory of the Russian Federation.
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Not everyone goes to get a higher education in order not to serve in the army. Many want to become qualified specialists so that they can begin their service by joining the junior officer corps. Military registration and enlistment offices are much more willing to enter into contracts with university graduates, since in this way they successfully implement the state program. A university graduate most often looks for a job in a specialty, a better paid alternative to which is contract service. It is possible to conclude an agreement with the armed forces without military service.
Combat training classes
Combat training classes are divided into general subjects and special ones.
The first includes public and state training, during which military personnel are told the history of the Russian Federation, their rights and responsibilities, as well as the internal political situation in the country and throughout the world.
In all military units, contract soldiers regularly engage in physical and drill training, study regulations, and practice putting on special protective equipment correctly and quickly.
Special classes are individual for each soldier. This is how the contract service of various specialists in the army roughly works:
- Drivers study the design of internal combustion engines, technical means, learn to drive heavy military equipment, etc.;
- Signalmen learn to tune radio stations, wind wires, and establish communications in the field;
- Airborne Forces contract soldiers jump with a parachute;
- Special forces soldiers practice hand-to-hand combat techniques, study special equipment, military equipment, all types of weapons, train to shoot them, etc.
Classes are conducted not only by senior officers, but also by warrant officers and sergeants who have a long period of service and extensive experience in handling military equipment, weapons, and conducting combat operations.
During classes on biological, radiation and chemical protection, contract soldiers are trained to correctly and temporarily put on OZK - a special combined arms protective kit against radiation and chemical damage.
In tactical and special training classes, contract soldiers train to repel enemy attacks in the field, properly camouflage themselves, conduct combat operations, etc.
Classes are held both during the day and at night. If training sessions last for the whole night, the personnel are allowed to rest the next day. The duration of each lesson is 50 minutes. Between them, military personnel are given a 10-minute smoke break.
Practical fire training exercises are organized at least once every month in each military unit. The personnel receive weapons and move to the shooting range. Directly on the spot, the shooting supervisors are instructed on the rules of handling weapons and the procedure for completing the procedure, signed in a log.
Each contract soldier is given a minimum of 30 rounds of ammunition for shooting. The target can be located, depending on the type of activity, at a distance of 50-100 m. Throwing a training grenade is also provided.
After completing practical fire training, personnel return to the unit, clean and hand over their weapons.
Requirements for university graduates
A specialist with a higher education is deservedly considered more literate. He easily masters new technology and is ready to work in changing conditions. Not every graduate can sign a contract. To obtain a place in the armed forces, you must meet the following requirements:
- Be in the age range from 18 to 40 years. This way, after receiving your diploma, you have time to think.
- Have good health. At the medical commission it is necessary to obtain group “A” or “B”. These groups are allowed to serve in the army.
- Show your physical fitness by successfully passing the standards. Speed, endurance and strength will be tested.
Also, the future contract soldier will have to undergo a series of psychological tests that will determine his suitability for service in a particular branch of the military. If these requirements are not met, the contract will not be concluded. Do not rush to quit your previous job so as not to be left without a livelihood.
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