I'm curious about this topic - though, please forgive me if it seems strange or nerdy to anyone, and I won't disagree with your opinion.

I'm curious about the training our basic soldiers receive, both in Basic ("boot") and afterward. Most of at least the Basic US training is available online, usually in the form of free .PDF manuals... most prevalent are the 1992/1998 editions but I have found the recent 2010/2 edition of the Army's PFTM and I can post it if anybody is interested.

With Russia though I did not have such luck - it might be my own iniquity but I couldn't find any such documentation, about how soldiers are trained in Russian military. I did find one article, talking about Spetsnaz Special Forces training, but none of this was very detailed and was all the diatribe of one ex-Spetsnaz named Badnyuk. I'd be interested in reading more about this.

Of course it also would not surprise me to simply find that Russia does not want to publish these documents - tactically speaking. It often surprises me that US always does, and did - even back in the 70s one could order these manuals through a mail-order service, even without any military credentials. Of course now with the internet it's all gone blessedly pear-shaped.

2012 Army Fitness Standards <-- website about 2012 PF standards for the US Army
http://www.apft-standards.com/files/...l_Training.pdf <-- 2012 APFT standards manual, for Training Organizers

If you know anything please fill me in! Or if there is nothing to know )))