Transfer from unit to unit for servicemen is one of key problems of army
I heard a typical story. A contract sergeant, a qualified artilleryman, from a military family, several years of service, fought flawlessly from the beginning of the great invasion, was the right hand of the combatant and senior battery officer, no jambs. And then the commander was replaced. And the new commander, to put it mildly, did not correspond to his position.
Reporting and reports are the first priority, and how the battery is firing, does anyone care? A sergeant brought in a request to be transferred to another unit, where they really wanted him to take a similar position. The commander tore up the application, then tore up the second, then the third. And when the sergeant brought in his leave report, instead of a legitimate leave, the commander gave him an order to transfer him as a regular rifleman to a new infantry brigade.
The sergeant left the unit and the service without permission.
We have great losses from AWOL. The military command does nothing to solve this problem.
The transfer of a soldier or sergeant takes a long time to be agreed upon at the level of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine! This is neither an exaggeration nor a joke. Under Zaluzhnyi, this was very chaotic and problematic, but it was often resolved with the right connections. Under Syrskyi, it has become worse in this regard - transfers have become a rarity, and the vast majority of people have no options.
Now, if a motivated soldier does not want to serve with incompetent commanders, wants to be in another team where he can fulfil himself, he has to go to the AWOL, has to be discharged for family reasons, medical reasons, spend many months on procedures and often even pay bribes! This makes many people desperate and angry, and they leave the army for a long time.
And the military command encourages this feudalism. People are shown that leaders treat their subordinates as their own resources.
Normal organisational work on recruitment, when people are moved to achieve certain goals, to strengthen combat capability, in our army has turned into some kind of absurd serfdom, when everything depends on the mood and relationships of different superiors, who are not interested in the result, the destruction of the enemy and the fate of their soldiers, but only in their own petty ambitions.
Unfortunately, we have no Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Office, no Minister of Defence, no parliamentary defence committee as bodies that can respond to problems, influence the management and organisation and effectively control the military leadership. We are losing time, we are losing people, and even the defeats on the frontline have not yet forced us to acknowledge and correct the obvious management and organisational mistakes.
Yurii Butusov, Censor. NET
