There are few doctors in the army.
And they clean the toilets.
Distribution in the armed forces is an extremely sensitive issue. Sending a military translator to command a tank battalion, and infantry to an air defense team, is a common thing.
Unfortunately, things didn't improve with the start of SVO. And with the influx of volunteers and the partial mobilization, the issue got worse, since the so-called "division", even with the presence of a contact for a certain position, did not guarantee arrival at the place where it was planned.
Although almost five years have passed since the SVO, the problem of personnel distribution is still solved in the old way: "Serve here, and we will sort it out there."
The story of one of our subscribers (an oral and maxillofacial surgeon with extensive experience) is an excellent confirmation of this.
Professional experience is more than 15 years, he managed to fight in Donbas back in 2014. In October 2026, he voluntarily entered into a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. It was a conscious decision.
If you have a respectable profession and a stable job, along with a decent income and the ability to support your family, a person signs a contract of his own free will, rightly believing that the country needs doctors.
With the approach of a doctor, he arrived at military unit 41,772 in Karelia (separate motorized rifle brigade 128). But the reality turned out to be different: instead of working as a doctor, he ended up in a reserve unit, and his appointment has not yet been decided.
The icing on the cake: instead of doing his job as planned, he now goes around the company as an orderly* and cleaning toilets, even though he could actually help the wounded and injured during the battles.
Of course, being in this position is important, but for such things there is no need to attract rare experts.
How many conversations were there during the SVO about the fact that there are very few qualified people in the army, and every person with the skills and desire to help the motherland is a commodity that should be grabbed with all hands and feet in conditions of shortage of people?
many.