Messengers from Heaven. Airborne Forces defending the Motherland
How to select those who are really worthy to serve in the Airborne Forces? Who is able to cope with the difficulties and tasks assigned to these troops? Let's try to sketch an alternative portrait of a Russian paratrooper from the point of view of Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology.
Part one: commanders and mentors
In the Soviet Union, thanks to the film In the Special Attention Zone, millions of boys dreamed of serving in the airborne troops. In spite of everything, even today the Russian airborne troops are the most trained and efficient in the Russian Army, they serve as an example of courage, heroism and courage.
Thanks to television, cinema, literature and partly mass festivities on August 2, a stereotypical image of a paratrooper was formed: a strong, courageous shirt-guy who sweeps away enemies, is not afraid of anything, owns hand-to-hand combat, shoots from everything that can shoot, controls almost any vehicle. Probably James Bond.
Let's try to sketch an alternative portrait of a Russian paratrooper from the point of view of Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology. And also to answer important questions: how to select those who are really worthy to serve in the Airborne Forces and who are able to cope with the difficulties and tasks assigned to these troops.
In my analysis, I will also rely on the experience of my service in four units of the Airborne Forces, during which I jumped with a parachute (IL-76, AN-2 aircraft, Mi-8 and Mi-6 helicopters) and fired from different types of weapons.
It's not about the muscles, it's about the head
Among the paratroopers, there was such a joke: a real paratrooper should be made of wood to the waist, especially from above. However, this is just a joke. The psychological factor in the selection for service in the Airborne Forces, especially in the intelligence unit, is no less important than the physical training of a candidate for contract service or a conscript.
Firstly, even a physically healthy and perfectly trained soldier in an extreme situation can get cold feet and either refuse to perform a training or combat mission, or make serious mistakes, the cost of which is his own life and the lives of comrades. Already at the stage of preparation, some of these people are eliminated - they are revealed during parachute jumping, when throwing grenades and during other training sessions. Everyone is afraid, but not everyone knows how to overcome their own fear.
Secondly, a paratrooper must be able to strictly adhere to instructions, strictly follow orders and instructions of commanders, and various regulations. No wonder it is said that the charter was written in blood. An overconfident fighter also poses a danger to himself and to those around him.
The third very important point is that a paratrooper can be an excellent fighter, executive, disciplined during service, but a scoundrel in life. And then his preparation is the preparation of a future dangerous criminal.
Thus, we see that selection based on psychological characteristics in the Airborne Forces and in other power structures of increased risk is the most important task. Another thing is also obvious: for a real paratrooper, psychology is more important than muscles.
System-vector psychology in the service of the Airborne Forces
Taking into account the experience and knowledge gained, I came to the conclusion that the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan can best help in the selection of the Airborne Forces, in the intelligence unit, in solving personnel issues.
The essence of System-Vector Psychology is that each person is the bearer of a certain vector (psychotype) or several vectors. There are eight vectors in total.
So, since there are vectors and there are certain requirements for an ideal paratrooper, then we must determine which vectors the paratrooper should be. You can also determine which vector is most optimal for those officers and sergeants who are engaged in specific tasks: intelligence, training recruits, staff work, and the like.
Skin commanders and specialists
The level of training of the personnel of the Airborne Forces, like any other kind of troops, depends, first of all, on the quality of the command personnel. The "commanding" vector, as well as the vector of specialists dealing with equipment and calculations (artillerymen, anti-aircraft gunners, repairmen and others) is rightfully the so-called skin vector. It must also be present with scouts.
The skin vector is actually a command vector. In the days of the primitive pack, skin people served as commanders in hunting and war. Led by a urethral leader, they provided discipline to the troops and organized separate groups of warriors.
The internal need of a person with a skin vector is the desire to limit, control, prohibit. That is why self-discipline is inherent in developed skin people, ensuring discipline in society, and they make the best commanders.
The skin man, being a hunter, began to save first food, and then efforts and time for its prey. He drew attention to the possibility of reducing the distance when moving across the landscape, to the possibility of using various devices in hunting, when crossing space. Kozhnik invented a raft, knitted from several trees, a spear for killing. A primitive man with a cutaneous vector can be safely called the first economist, traveler and inventor.
Skin people are characterized by a sense of rhythm, a high ability to adapt to the external environment, logic, quick reaction, precision and excellent coordination.
The carrier of the skin vector is 24% of humanity.
Knowing the properties of the skin vector, we can draw conclusions about professional suitability for specific positions, be it an officer, soldier or sergeant.
It is obvious that developed leather workers are not only ideal commanders of combat units, but also technical specialists. They also occupy all kinds of positions of chiefs of warehouses as warrant officers, disposing of property.
Even when appointing to positions for sergeants and privates, one should pay attention to the presence of a skin vector. For example, the best snipers are developed skins. They have a tendency to self-restraint, an innate sense of the trajectory of a bullet. Radio operators, grenade launchers, machine gunners are better than leather workers, there are no candidates for these positions. They will also come in handy as part of a reconnaissance group for their ability to navigate perfectly, calculate the route and with an eye.
When dealing with a skin soldier, one must keep in mind that this vector is ideal for the army when it is developed, implemented and operates within strict frameworks. If the skin is archetypal or under stress, then it begins to show its worst properties. That is, saving turns into theft, for the sake of personal interests any rules are rejected, a person becomes capable of betrayal for the sake of profit. An officer with an archetypal skin with his tyranny can thoroughly ruin the life of his subordinates and colleagues, building a career in a way that is not most worthy from a moral point of view.
The skin mentality is inherent in the West, not in Russia. Therefore, when, as a result of perestroika, archetypal skin people came to power, we all saw a complete collapse, including in the Armed Forces. Corruption, theft, and hazing have acquired an unprecedented scale - military service has turned not into a school of courage, but mainly into a duty for children from poor families, whose parents could not buy off or otherwise protect their child from being drafted.
In the Airborne Forces, the strength of discipline (skin restrictions) was higher than in other branches of the military, and therefore the general chaos did not hit the paratroopers so hard. The traditions laid down by Vasily Margelov also played a role, however, the total underdevelopment and archetypal nature of the skin vector observed in Russian society may at some point overpower, and it is quite possible that in 10-20 years the airborne troops, alas, will be different in their own way spirit and level of discipline.
Who will teach and keep the traditions?
In Soviet times, there was a well-functioning pre-conscription system for recruiting and preparing for service in the Airborne Forces - potential candidates made three parachute jumps in DOSAAF clubs. Thanks to this, 70% of recruits who were sent to sergeant training already had jumping experience and some ideas about traditions.
Now the training of a young fighter begins either in civilian life in the military-patriotic club, or in the training unit. According to Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology, the functions of preserving traditions and educating the younger generation are best handled by people of the so-called anal vector, which 20% of the world's population has. In primitive society, a man with an anal vector performed the functions of a cave protector in the absence of warriors and hunters, and also accumulated and passed on knowledge about hunting and war to teenage boys.
The accumulation of knowledge was expressed, first of all, in a kind of expert assessment by an anal person of everything that could be useful for the survival of the flock, from hunting methods to food-friendly roots.
In the process of accumulating knowledge, the anal sex, separating the clean from the dirty and the useful from the unusable, pays attention to the smallest details. He is a painstaking, meticulous and unhurried person who does everything thoroughly. This accuracy is also expressed in interpersonal relationships - he tries to be accurate and clean in relations with everyone, that is, fair and honest.
Most experts in many fields of human activity, where a large amount of knowledge, excellent skill and thoroughness are required, have an anal vector - be they doctors, builders, jewelers, auditors. In ordinary life, these are people with golden hands, as well as teachers and teachers.
It is best to use anal people in training and logistic units. They will pass on traditions and, as it should, teach new recruits.
You should also be aware of the dark sides of the anal vector. If the anal person is in a state of frustration (when he cannot satisfy certain needs), then he can become a source of big problems. In particular, a frustrated analist, if he does not receive a way out of his inner tension, is prone to sadism, criticism, vengefulness, and resentment. Homosexuality and pedophilia can become an extreme form. In a military collective, such an analyst can initiate hazing with the use of violence and bullying.
If we have decided on the vectors of commanders in combat units and mentors in training, now we need to understand who they teach, whom they command, who, roughly speaking, forms the foundation of the army, its biomass. These are people with a muscle vector. Read about the properties of this and other vectors and about the real psychological portrait of the paratrooper in the continuation of the article.
The article was written based on the experience of service in the airborne forces, the history of the Airborne Forces, as well as the material of lectures on system-vector psychology by Yuri Burlan.
Continuation:
Born for the Airborne Forces. Warm heart of a soldier under the clouds
