Delta looks beautiful in the beginning of summer:
This is the area of my crabbing:
During crab hunting I was thinking about finishing my story and, as a result, Missilemen 60
Demobilization was approaching inevitably. We started to pack our suitcases in the end of February 1976. And same time other guy started agitating me. This was division commanded deputy on politics. It looks like they were motivated some way to do this.
“Where do you plan to work after army service?” – he asks me.
“In the university”.
“How much they will pay you?”
“One hundred ten per month”.
“We will pay you two hundred fifty plus twenty rationed. The clothes is for free. We feed you in the battalion. Every year your family vacation trim travel fairs are paid even to Kamchatka. Do you see the difference?”
“Yes, I see”.
“Do they arrange apartment for you in the university?”
“No. May be in several years”.
“Here you will get new one same moment when sign contract. Stay with us”.
Strange. Now his reasons look very convincing. But in that time the youth idealism, pseudo-freedoms and civil friends were much more important in comparison with material values. Not many of two-year officers left for professional 25 year service. Even those, married, with their families didn’t buy all these military life temptations.
Finally, in the beginning of March all of us were commissioned from the Soviet Army and started our new civil lives.
