Probably, all of us, reserve or retired military personnel who decided to capture their memories of their service, must remember that no amount of our own funds would be enough for us to acquire as personal property those material assets whose management was entrusted to us in the interests of the state . And never again will we be able to gather our former colleagues together. All this is the basis on which our memories are based. Yes, we were limited by the framework of the regulations and responsibility for people and equipment, but within this framework there was enough freedom to implement the requirements of the regulations, because the course of military service can only be formalized externally, but internally it was different for everyone. Therefore, our memories of military service in different branches of the military and in different positions are both unique and subjective. We, the officers of the armed forces of the seventies and eighties, were lucky - we saw the heyday of the Army, Aviation and Navy of the Soviet Union.