Specialist

Eugeniy Gorbunov, Sergeant First Class, is going to say goodbye to the warship’s crew. In his native Norilsk, which is in the Krasnodar territory, his family and friends are already waiting for him. And the sailor himself has missed them a lot and just can not wait to get home at last. As the saying goes, once one has faithfully fulfilled a soldier’s duty to his Motherland, it is time to “lock up the sea”.

Eugeniy believes, however, that those two years of active service in the Pacific Ocean Fleet were not in vain for him. When he was called up, he was just a green young man who, by the day of his transfer to the reserve has turned into a veteran sailor, a top-class specialist in this field. It was not accidental that in the last year of his service he was appointed a rocket-artillery unit commander.

How did all that change the guy?

- First of all, there is a lot more responsibility now, - Eugeny told us on the board of a large anti-submarine ship. – Before that I was responsible only for myself while now the range of my duties has greatly extended. Now I have subordinates who differ very much in terms of their character, education and abilities. But the quality of the unit’s operational capacity must not suffer from that because we service the stabilizers, in other words, devices that secure the firing accuracy of all the ship’s guns. So I had to do my best to find the key to every sailor and help them master the servicing.

While taking part in the long cruise to the Indian Ocean, Gorbunov had a good naval training. Back at home, he will, probably, be dreaming about not only those oversea countries he happened to visit but also numerous naval trainings he had a chance to participate in. His fellow-sailors and he controlled the ship’s rolling and pitching motion, transferred the data needed “on command” thus greatly contributing to the seamen gunners successfully accomplishing their firing duties.

Captain Sergey Grachev is also sure that Sergeant First Class Eugeniy Gorbunov has fulfilled his potential as a hydrostabilization unit commander.

- Of course we have offered Gorbunov to continue to serve on a contract basis but his family misses him so much and can not wait to have him back so he decided not to cast in his lot with the fleet,- his ship’s commander said. – Well, it is up to him to choose his further destiny, after all. I have no doubt that Eugeniy has left fond memories of himself with all the members of the crew. He did his best. The years he served have taught him to establish contact with his subordinates in the most fruitful and mutually-beneficial manner, he was always ready to help them when needed thus becoming a person officers could always count on. And I would like to thank his parents who have brought up such a wonderful defender of our Motherland. I wish there were more guys like him in the fleet!