Saper's work - a challenge for the best or medium funny absurdity?
The vast majority of seekers are associated with the Cossack, who has eggs so hard, that you need a real explosion, To crush them. The general opinion also fifles with this, that in Poland sappers have much less to do than even in France. Is this true, however? Ahead of you the splendor and shadows of sapper life in Poland.
A big shock for the vast majority is the fact of the private sector in sappering - the so -called civil sapper. The topic has exposed a bit for the bystanders due to several large scandals (And how differently in our country was to gain publicity), But the sapper is still clearly associated with the army and translation, that this work like any other is quite troublesome. In Poland, professional qualifications for the profession of sapper are gained after a positive end of the sapper exam, preceded by a course. In practice it looks like this, that after 3 the course of the course goes to the exam, who has a strange enough 100% passage. Sounds suspicious? Welcome to Poland.
The sapper is associated with man, which he has wide I see about it, which cable cut. The problem in this, that this is not what his work is all about. In our conditions, civilian sappers deal primarily with so -called terrain. The theory says, that you need knowledge to search for and take dangerous items. The practice leaves no illusions, Anyone can become a sapper in this country, who is about PLN 2700 free, ma 3 days of time for the course and is able to learn during the course of the basics in the field of knowledge of weapons and ammunition as well as health and safety (I remind you about 100 % passing). So we have quite a large group of people, which works on the landslides without any real preparation.
Happiness in misery, that the work of a native sapper is not about disarming loads, bullets or mines. The law does not allow it and the work methodology does not include this kind of dealing with dangerous objects. The civilian sapper is to find the detector, dig, assess whether it is safe or not and transfer to the warehouse of hazardous materials. In Poland, the vast majority of dangerous finds include unexploded bombs and ammunition (Definitions can be read in one of my articles, So it makes no sense to dwell on it here), so finds quite resistant to attempts to initiate loading by manipulating the object. Hence, accidents related to explosives are quite rare (A few in the last few years, quite intense in terms of the relaxed material). Sapper's health is much more often caused by such banal issues, like injuries as a result of overloading the body and accidents related to the work environment. As you probably guessed, From time to time, someone will fall into nettle or try to tear his eye with a branch in accordance with the principle: "Protective equipment is for the weak".
So it may seem, that being a sapper is cool. Adventure with detector and a sword in your hand, historical curiosities around and finally pay for it, pretty good. Of course, appearances are deceptive, and it's damn. First of all, it's quite hard physical work (ot, and the secret of short and "effective" training comes out), where you don't have to know what you work with, If you work quickly and effectively. The second myth are the amazing "side" finds when working with detectors. Works are usually carried out in places, where there is practically nothing but ammunition and the remains of it, So about the full trunk of helmets, You can basically forget the bucket of bayonet and pockets full of decorations of Guderian himself. The least funny of paradoxes is it, that the harder you work, the less you earn. The civil sapper methodology assumes the remuneration provided for a cleaned hectare. So it is logical, that on hectares of "clean", with low signal intensity in the ground, You earn more, and he works with a spade less. Similarly - as you get to hell, where the day by day your backs are forced to take up to several hundred shells and hundreds of kilos of scrap metal, Your earnings will be ridiculously low.
So work as a sapper in Poland is a dirty reality, not life on the edge? Unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases - Poland in the field of sapper knowledge got stuck in the years 40. Specialized staff is not trained, because the Polish Army only deals with intervention in dangerous materials and the utilization of this, what civilian sappers will find. Fortunately, the possibilities of blowing up by civil companies are quite limited. Hence, Our roads are speeding vehicles of sapper patrols filled with rusty death, Often through urban areas. An unthinkable thing in the West, Normal in us. In combination with virtually zero knowledge of civilian sappers, we have a beautiful picture of "Third World", which hardly anyone knows in Poland.
What are the bright pages? Apart from the obvious span with buddies - pickup for the text "Hey Girl, throw a loser for a sapper ”still has effectiveness, Especially in those more forgotten by gods and civilization places, And this is how the landscape looks after the former training grounds, which in recent years has been cleaned for EU money. The brigade of several dozen sappers on quarters usually introduces a lot of color to the village, And as we add to this fact, that it is an extremely men's company. Sapper also not a fish, After a hard day, he likes to drink, and daredevils snorting death in the face usually there is no shortage of fantasy during evening maneuvers. Just after a few deeper one did not like one friend after the spade, Because among the sapper brothers, there is no way to look for Hispters and other tubes.
