Lieutenants, senior lieutenants, captain-lieutenants. Commanders of groups, platoons, companies, services, and combat units... How do young officers of the Northern Fleet live? What excites and disturbs them, saddens and pleases them? What do they dream about? We conducted a kind of sociological survey among forty-eight officers. The responses were collected and analyzed. The results of this study became the basis of the proposed publication. We want to warn you right away: we did not require officers to provide their addresses, first and last names (and if they did, then at will). But all these statements are unambiguously reliable. Officer: the elite of society or the stepson of the state? In the early 1920s, Mikhail Frunze, speaking at the Third Congress of Soviets, gave figures describing the social origin of the command staff of the Red Army and Navy. They were as follows: peasants - 57%, workers-19.3%, intellectuals and persons of noble origin-23.7%. Gone are those days. There is no need to talk about people of noble origin today. As the results of the survey showed, there are few today who wear officer shoulder straps, and "from the peasants". (Among our respondents, only three lieutenants, one senior lieutenant, and two lieutenant commanders fell into this category.) The majority of respondents - 56 percent-are from military families. In second place - 32 percent - are representatives of the working class. Perhaps it is not surprising that the children of the military choose the path of their fathers. It's already in the blood. As they say, the baker pekarevo. "I have lived in military camps all my life," Senior Lieutenant A. Samokhvalov wrote in the questionnaire. - Together with the head of the family, we moved from one place of service to another. Almost every day, I also had to communicate with sailors and officers, learn, no matter how banal it sounds, the romance of military service and the problems that people in uniform face. The respondent is convin ... Читать далее