Talk:Rear services

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False alert due to LOC FRD mirror
Removed This alert happened when I was doing sthis article The country data is a LOC FRD Country Study mirror, which is in the public domain. Hah, so there!!--Degen Earthfast (talk) 03:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Summary of Scott & Scott 1984
"The Armed Forces of the USSR, Third Edition, Revised and Updated, 1984." Harriet Fast Scott, William F. Scott, Westview, Boulder, 1984. Via https://archive.org/details/armedforcesofuss0000scot

Page 246: "Troops of the Tyl, Construction and Billeting Troops and Troops of Civil Defence were headed by deputy ministers of defence. The special troops - engineers, signal (radiotechnical), chemical, railroad (construction), road (construction) and Automotive, each headed by a general or marshal, are not a single organisation. Each has its own service chief, reporting directly to the Minister of Defence."

Page 252: includes "reserves of various kind of material; special troops [above, but also inc pipe-laying]; fleet auxiliary; airport engineers; aviation technical; medical; veterinarian, and units, establishments, an subunits. It may also have engineer, chemical, signals, air defence, and guards." Each of the services has a deputy commander-in-chief for the Tyl.

Page 254-55: staff positions, department heads, in 1984 included food supply, fuel supply, Central Military Medical Administration, Clothing Supply, Main Administration of Trade (Voyentorg, military stores & military post exchanges), Rear Cadres, Railway, Pipeline, Central Administration of Military Communications (VOSO), veterinarian, Motortransport Service (provides vehicles while Automotive Troops provides drivers), Highway Directorate, Chief, Tourism and Execursion Administration, Tyl Political Section (last five all general majors).