Lieutenant Colonel Valery MAKEEV, Editor-member of the Editorial Board of Orientir magazine

On December 1, 2000, a new academic year begins in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. What will it be like - the first academic year of the new millennium? It will probably be different from the previous ones. After all, our society is becoming more and more aware of the significant role of the Armed Forces in strengthening statehood. But one thing is certain, it won't be easy. And when in Russia military service was an easy matter? Today, in the army and navy, young people master thousands of specialties. It is clear that each of them requires certain knowledge. Well, knowledge of the history of our state, the traditions of its Armed Forces, state policy in the field of defense of the country-do they need a modern soldier? This formulation of the question is initially absurd. After all, a real specialist cannot take place if he did not take place as a citizen, a patriot, a loyal son of the Fatherland "It is not enough to train a soldier in shooting and rifle techniques, "wrote Colonel K. Kuzminsky, a well - known theorist in the field of military pedagogy," you still need to cultivate love for the Motherland."

To foster love for the Motherland... How difficult it is to do this today, when we are going through hard times. After all, right now it is so important to give each serviceman a certain spiritual charge, to convince him that the difficulties experienced today are transitory. Public and state training should play an important role here. It should promote awareness among soldiers of their military duty, a steady desire to fulfill it in good faith. On the eve of the new academic year, I would like to talk about some of the problems of organizing the UCP, without solving which, in our opinion, it is impossible to achieve its high-quality and effective implementation.

In the UCP system, the largest amount of study time is devoted to studying the history, state and military construction of Russia. And this is quite true. Being a powerful source and means of educating soldiers of the Armed Forces, history today is almost the only thing that inspires us to heroic work in the name of the Fatherland. And it should be noted that in recent years, the interest of military personnel in the history of the country, the traditions of the army, and its spiritual values has noticeably increased.

It would seem, what huge educational opportunities it all gives! But they can be implemented only when the class leader is not only a convinced patriot of his Fatherland, but also has sufficient knowledge of the subject, teaching methods, and pedagogical skills. In reality, the leaders of the UCP groups, as a rule, are young officers, graduates of command military educational institutions, who do not yet possess either one or the other. Those who are supposed to help the leaders of UCP groups in their professional development are also no better prepared. Unfortunately, UCP and information officers often become not at the call of the heart and soul, but in connection with numerous organizational and staff activities. Former political schools are now closed, and the hope that any commander can turn out to be an organizer of information and educational work, alas, was not justified. The problem of training a good teacher cannot be solved in isolation from all others, such as methodological support for training sessions, the use of modern information technologies, and others. But it is precisely this function that is perhaps the most important in the organization of the UCP.

And more. Public and state training is precisely the form of information and educational work that, while responding promptly to current and actual problems, is focused on the future and the final result. So, it is aimed at the formation of state thinking among military personnel, a sense of responsibility for the fate of the country and its Armed Forces. I would like to believe that in the 2001 academic year, public and state training will be at the level of the tasks it faces.

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