Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian field medics have been given only six days of training before immediately being sent to their deaths as stormtroopers, due to commanders ignoring the value of their specialty, according to a scathing commentary from a Russian army medical team. ⬇️

2/ The author of the '5 mg. KGV' Telegram channel describes his experience in providing medical training alongside another military medical specialist, a man with the callsign 'Shlyakhtich':

"He organized the training processes for self-help as best he could.

3/ "He butted heads with the operational and combat training leadership about increasing the time allocated for medicine, and in general he was the first to justify applications for first aid kits, their echeloning, and equipment.

4/ "Then, at his invitation, and in the absence of a plane to the Central African Republic that would deliver me to the bosom of my beloved 8th detachment, there were two of us.

5/ "And we look at everything that is happening, observe, and understand that somehow there is no training of junior medical specialists at all.

Well, just no. Self-help training 3 times a week for everyone.

This is a disaster. This is abysmal! This is screwed up!

6/ "We went to the management. We said, "This is how it is, we have the resources, we'll put together a programme. Give us time and people, and we'll train them. They'll go to the medical teams.

7/ "We got to the point where they justified it financially, that it is more profitable to spend on training a specialist who will save more than 300 people and return them to duty, than to pay 5 million [rubles] for each 200 [killed] person.

In short, rabble.

8/ "They gave us a pilot course. To try it out. Less than a week. Six days, Karl! For a medical instructor!

Try to train someone in six days who didn't even know what brilliant green [antisceptic dye] was yesterday.

But the management was on a roll.

9/ "Here are six days. Here are ten people. If you don't train them, it will be worse for you.

The six days began.

Shlyakhtich was constantly at the training ground, investing his own money and purchasing supplies to make up for the shortcomings of the training base.

10/ "I wrote the programme, adjusting it as I went along.

And the two of us, 24/7, in addition to training the stormtroopers, are training the first group of medical instructors.

11/ "All this time, the trainees naturally ask us, ‘Guys, we're studying with you now, but are you sure they won't send us to be stormtroopers?’

12/ "Deeply convinced of the foolishness of this idea, we reassured the guys with our word of honour that they were being trained for the most difficult work – evacuation.

Six days of 18-19 hours of training.

Theory, practice, theory, practice, tests.

13/ "We were all exhausted. Very much so.

Once, Shlyakhtich fell asleep standing up with a mug of coffee in his hands from exhaustion. Then he came to his senses and continued his lecture.

And here are the long-awaited tests, good (I would even say excellent) results.

14/ "The guys are distributed among the squads.

Shlyakhtich himself equips them with medical packs. We see them off and wait for feedback.

The first one appeared in our field of vision on crutches after 1.5 weeks.

15/ "When we approached him, he looked at us with such anger and said, ‘You promised...’

And these words were like a dagger in the heart...

As a result, only two people remained alive from the group.

16/ "All 10 had been immediately assigned to stormtrooper squads, automatic grenade launchers, recoilless guns, etc.

The units didn't care about any assignments, training, or recommendations for positions. Or about the operational and combat training in general." /end

Source:
t.me/KGV5mg/2251