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or authorized post, but luc- kily that is not very signi- ficant, because the scope of those exercises is very li- mited and mostly consists of performing so-called simple tasks, referred to as "speed- -loading magazines." Why does this happen? Because military units constantly receive new reservists, even for the same authorized posts, and they are unable to prepare an ap - propriate training system. Added to that is the absur- dity of assigning service and posts, which sometimes seems as if someone at the WCR or- gans were literally drawing lots. Thus a person without a driving license is assigned as a truck driver with a trailer; a veterinary technician who has not worked a single hour in the trade but owns a thick file of SEP (Association of Po - lish Electrical Engineers) qu- alifications is assigned as a paramedic; a paramedic of 15 years' experience is assigned to operate radio equipment because during their basic service they served in a si - gnals unit as the commander's driver. It is absurd that pe- ople with no connection to a given service, even indirec- tly, receive an assignment — for example, a 60-year-old is assigned as a "senior drone operator" to a military unit that has no drones, and he himself has never even han- dled a toy drone. On the other hand, there are vast numbers of reservists who have no mo- bilization assignments becau- se "the units territorially subordinate to the WCR has no free posts consistent with the reservist's service." The current pathological reserve management system allows such situations. The exercises themselves are organized ad hoc (this is a wholly subjective opinion expressed by reserve soldiers) and without any deeper purpo - se, which is visible in cases when a reservist is called up to them every year. The ses- sions are run from the same lesson plan; the only change is the date. There are practically no au - thorized-post trainings , although they are planned — for example 2 × 45 minutes on a five-day reserve exerci - se — which nonetheless often do not take place for various reasons. The simplest reason is that reservists lack the so-called security clearance or the access authorizations for classified information required for a given post, because when they are called up no one at the wCR checks whether the reservist actual - ly has such clearances — at- tendance is what counts. The absence of clearances among reservists has no impact on the content of reports pro - duced after exercises, which state that all exercise ob- jectives were met — which is partly true, because some exercises are at such a low level that it is difficult not to meet their objectives, but many reports are "embel - lished." An example of this is exercises that require se- curity clearances for certain posts while the reserve per- sonnel participating do not possess such clearances and therefore are not admitted to the equipment they were sup - posed to train on — yet the reports state that they were trained on that equipment. Mentioned earlier was the le - vel of training: the pinnacle of the dismissive approach to it is retraining for a new mi- litary specialty during exer- cises. For an officer to obtain a new specialty — e.g., 30A01 (logistics — general) — it is enough during exercises for him to watch how a NS put up tent is pitched and how tables are arranged inside it. After that he can get a mobiliza - tion assignment to the post "logistics section officer." And what retraining does the WCR or, of course, the unit require of a lieutenant in or - ANALYSIS