How Schoolchildren's Field Trainings Are Conducted — Girls Are Also Taught to Storm Trenches and Disassemble Rifles
This is what the camp at a military unit base near Minsk looks like.
Photos here and further: "Prystalichcha"
Tenth-graders from Minsk district are undergoing training field camps at military unit 3310's base. The camps have been made a mandatory stage of pre-conscription training, on which the annual grade depends, Prystalichcha reports.
This year, 176 boys and girls from ten schools gathered here. Students came from Barawlyany, Zaslawye, Hatava, Zhdanovichy, as well as from Minsk.
Six platoons of 30 people each were formed.
Reveille is at 7 AM, followed by exercises, formations, and classes. Firearms, tactical, engineering, and medical training takes place here.
"Medical training now lasts about 20 hours instead of the previous four to eight. Firearms training — up to 40 hours," says Yauhen Tsivunow, director of the camp and head of military-patriotic education at Barawlyany Secondary School No. 2.
The camps have been extended to ten days and moved to a military unit base, whereas previously they lasted five days and took place simply in schools.
Phones are issued here for two hours a day. Children are taught to clean the camp, make their beds perfectly, and march.
Alongside the boys, several girls also undergo all the tests.
"We practice storming trenches and buildings, disassembling assault rifles, medicine, topography, and putting on gas masks and OZK (all-military protective kit)," the girls say.
In addition to classes, schoolchildren have a cultural program: history quizzes, patriotic films, and military-patriotic karaoke.