"Difficult teenagers" in the Vitebsk region passed the course of a young paratrooper

14-August-2020

Such an opportunity for minors, with whom the IDN employees carry out individual preventive work, was provided by the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate and the 103rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade. It was on the basis of the latter that the military sports camp "Scout" worked for two weeks. The winged infantry, together with law enforcement officers, developed a rich program for the children.

This could not but provoke the "scouts": they were ready to go through fire, water and copper pipes in order to stand in line with the soldiers of the formation.

And while the guys cope with the same suit from the chemical protection kit in four minutes, and not in two, as the paratroopers do, they have not changed their dream, which originated here two weeks ago, to become like these guys. Despite the weather, which did not particularly indulge the "scouts" with sunny days, on the parade ground and in the barracks, where the guys spent most of their time, it was bright and sunny from the glint of their eyes.

Boys and girls understood: adrenaline rush can be obtained not only from the thrill they know. The organization of such thematic camps is an excellent method of combating bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles in adolescents.
This is confirmed by the guys themselves - during classes, such adrenaline is generated that no cigarettes and cans of beer are needed!

Every day after getting up begins with charging and putting things in order, which means, including making the bed. One day a battle was held in the camp. The subject of the competition was the dispute: who will make the bed according to the army regulations, not just quickly, but efficiently.

The guys were convinced that the army is dominated not only by order, but also by discipline. Someone on bitter, although there were no expelled from the ranks. Punishment for misconduct and loose tongue: exercise. To get on them means to deprive yourself of the opportunity to see “how dandelions fly over the ground” at the real airfield of the Vitebsk aero club named after A.K. Horovets.

Here boys and girls got the opportunity to feel like real pilots: in the cockpit of winged machines they were interested in absolutely every device. The head of the air traffic control department Svetlana Manko, who has been at the helm for nearly four decades, did not leave a single question unanswered. The instructor pilot has already spent about 5 thousand hours in the sky. In the class of direct flight preparation, the teenagers were told about the packing of the parachute system. Each of the guys could make a jump in full ammunition. True, so far only in place.

Vitebsk schoolboy Sergei Yakovlev is in the camp for the first time. However, it makes it clear that next year, if such a one opens its doors, will become a part of it. By this time, he firmly decided to tie up with friends from the past, to improve discipline. Seryozha also has one more incentive to change his lifestyle: to do military service in the ranks of the famous Vitebsk unit.
Camp "Razvedchik" every year sees children in its ranks, with whom individual preventive work is carried out.
As a reminder of unforgettable days, the teenagers received diplomas and souvenirs from the organizers and the title of "scout".