You guys remember when I posted earlier this week and a bit of last week about Derek the American who moved to Russia at the start of the year and signed to be a contract volunteer for the Russian army? Then he got fucked over with the 3mn signing on bonus(only for citizens of Moscow oblast not resident volunteers) instead he got only 300k rubles signing bonus but they still haven't paid it to the family yet as it takes 8 weeks to process.

Well looks like he's been shafted by the Russian MoD again.

His wife just uploaded a video and after just *four* weeks of training, he's been sent to the front(her words).
He signed to be a welder and mechanic(his skillsets in the US) working in the army repair units.
He also had to give 10,000 rubles of his salary to his unit(mandatory) for supplies which she's not happy about as he needs money and she can't send him any of the signing on bonus as I mentioned earlier.

Is it possible that they need his skillsets on the vehicles being damaged in the rapidly progressing offensive operations underway? Big moves are underway as I type and summer has also officially started, its an all hands on deck situation I would imagine especially with zero combat training that he'd be in the rear areas of the theater?

If you want to watch the video, I'll link it. Otherwise I'll just post the description she left:

>Just a few months after moving from America to Russia with our three daughters, my husband made the brave decision to join the Russian army. He believed he would be serving with his welding and building skills in the repair battalion — but after only three weeks of training, he is now being sent to the front lines.

>This wasn’t what he expected. But we are putting our trust in God that He will protect my husband and all those serving during this difficult time. We are grateful for the chance to live here and to be part of this new chapter in Russia, even as it comes with challenges we couldn’t have imagined.

Derek the American who signed a contract with the Russian army a few weeks ago after moving to Russia in February gave a fathers day message to his 3 daughters and wife who live in the "American village" in the Moscow region:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Zd1Pkf8hk

Does he not realise that a contracted soldier has 6-12 weeks of basic training and then 8-16 weeks of combat training and there is also specialist training which can last another 8-32 weeks. The length is based on branch joined.
>"Hope I get a vacation at some point"
Its been three weeks...
He will get a brief time off(usually 7-10 days)between basic training ending and the beginning of the combat training.

Then again he did sign it thinking he would get that massive ruble signing on bonus when its only for citizens not residents and his wife wasn't happy about that in a video briefly talking about it. They do get a signing on bonus but its like 200k rubles(iirc) not 3-5 million like the posters say and they don't get access to the full bounties and vast benefits that citizens would just a partial percentage of each. However serving as a legal resident contract soldier will grant you(and your family if they are with you) citizenship in Russia after 1 year service with no language test, no history test and no 5 years residency requirement.

If you signed the contract, it means you're committing to a minimum of 1 year military service including that half year of mandatory training time for people with no military experience and then the half year of high chance of combat risk due to the ongoing war. But at 45 years old, I'll guess they will shove him in the rear with the logistics,medical,maintenance,air defence and artillery units.

His wife on the other hand appears to be a mental case and posted a very over sharing video yesterday of her addiction problems and the stress of being alone without her husband is making her temptations come back. Comments on that video are pretty interesting.