S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The State Security Service of Ukraine - Military/Army Faction History & Lore

As the most powerful faction in the Zone, the Ukrainian Military is doing its best to keep the disaster under control. In this video, we will take a look at the organisation of the Army and their history within Chernobyl, which is deeply linked to the story of the Zone itself.
00:00 Intro
00:56 General information
02:27 Organisation
05:13 Relations with Duty
06:14 Early history
07:57 Year 2011
11:04 Project TRUTH
12:42 Operation Agroprom
14:13 Raiding X-labs
17:46 Operation Monolith
19:10 Operation Fairway
21:47 Conclusion
23:12 Outro

[@TalkernateHistory]

The military needs to mount some kind of quick firing bolt throwing device on the front of their helicopters to safely navigate the air above the zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Ahaha yes!

[@zherean42069]

Missile

[@underrated7312]

@@zherean42069 I'm black🙂

[@_abk_3251]

Modern problems require modern solutions

[@DeusExHackina]

Please could we have some guy strapped to the front of the aircraft with a bucket of bolts? :D

[@ClearWhiteWater]

What make military great 1.They have helicopter 2.Have a cool weapon (pkm in cs) 3.Kill every stalker (but not dooty maybe) 4.Have a Armored car 5.Using cool Armor 6.I don't know spetsnaz maybe

[@friedyzostas9998]

Average Chad 🗿 Military dripped with Bulat suits and Grozas vs Average Virgin 💀destitute stalker wearing pyjamas with sawn-off shotguns at best

[@anomalousdugout9557]

They have some cool stuff indeed.

[@BadassName17]

Think the ones that guard stuff and patrol are regular soldiers. Ones that get sent in could be a mix of spetsnaz and regulars, or just spetsnaz.

[@cap7648]

Stalkers: ''Are you two friends?'' Army: ''Yes.'' Duty: ''Yes.''

[@zherean42069]

I think spetnaz are the thing with the military but they're Russian and the military is Ukrainian

[@storyteller8887]

Ah yes the military, they literally have unlimited PKM ammos and gun down stalkers easily.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's right.

[@zherean42069]

They must have that svu because that's the most strongest weapon ever imo

[@obi-highgroundkenobi685]

*Good soldiers follow orders*

[@gagaplex]

I really liked that we get to play as military in Call of Pripyat. It does a lot to humanize them, when in the previous games they were solely enemies and all character had to come from documents and whatnot.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I agree.

[@volchonokilliR]

I think it may have been due to the cuts. Otherwise there is no real reason to make special models for military officers, as well as make outposts so detailed

[@drifrer007]

I wish the military wasnt aggresive because then it would avoid problems and as a ukrainian dont really wanna fight my military

[@SomalianIchimi]

years ago i read that the military's stance towards stalkers in soc & cs was because of irl ukraine's political condition, including their irl military at that time, so stalker was a satire/critics from the developers (look how they make the military as corrupt and annoying for the players, especially after you're exiting swamp). but everything changed since cop. idk what really happened in irl ukraine during cop's development, i have little interest in foreign politics. and take this information with grain of salt as idk if the source was reliable (because i even forgot where i read that). but i think the military has changed more in stalker 2 since the russian invasion, especially since one of the cs dev (or maybe more) was killed near bakhmut in dec 2022 (rip loki, from anarchist to joined military for actual freedom). i need to wait to play or at least watched the full walkthrough to understand the story instead of just watching the trailers.

[@rayres1074]

@@drifrer007 That's an extra amount of lore and roleplaying for you.

[@akale2620]

You go from hating the military to being the military. You also go from trying to infiltrate the zone to trying to escape it

[@anomalousdugout9557]

True.

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

What's cool is that this also applies to Strelok by CoP

[@vasilzahariev5741]

The military is one of my favourite factions in the games. I also enjoy playing as them in mods like Anomaly.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright!

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

Same here! My favorite in the entire game, followed by the Mercenaries ^_^ Also yessss, i play'em too in Anamoly.

[@yakivpopavich]

They are great for Warfare, as are Monolith

[@LankyMF]

Military have gotta be the most crushing faction to play as, even bandits have some allies

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

@@LankyMF army is friends with Duty or at least they are neutral towards them

[@danne8797]

Never underestimate a long lore video. Every minute is pure bliss!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I guess that's right!

[@ryanvandoren1519]

Da

[@user-iu4jl6cg4n]

"because of poor protection..." *Eats an entire AK mag on the background*

[@anomalousdugout9557]

If it was a spestnaz or a military stalker, 2 or 3 mags would have been needed. That's how bad this weapon is in Shadow of Chernobyl.

[@dutyer2005]

@@anomalousdugout9557 not if you get headshots.

[@vbhgbvf]

@@anomalousdugout9557 yeah, the psz-7 that grunts wear is trash

[@vikingyux3491]

Okay, let’s take a look at the accomplishments of the Ukrainian military in the zone: Failed basically every single operation they ever conducted Failed all rescue attempts except one Says they want to stop the stalking phenomenon, but they’re the reason why it’s still growing Indirectly created duty. CS: Failed to gun down a merc in clear sky armor with a PKM Leaves a squad to die in their own warehouses Gets their asses kicked in middle of Limansk and loses a helicopter SoC: Wiped out small loner faction in the cordon Sets up a base in Agroprom. Tries to kick out a group of loners near the second building in agroprom(failed) They get their base wiped out by the marked one who was armed with a modified AK-76 and a regular sunrise suit Raids X-18 to get the documents, again failed Gets their documents stolen in their checkpoint Tries to take over radar after the brain scorcher was shut down, failed Once again assaults the CNPP in Operation Monolith, once again get completely wiped out by a mega-emission CoP: Launches Operation Fairway, do I even need to say what happened here? Survivors of the operation get holed up in a laundromat in Pripyat They are then saved by Major Degtyarev and takes strelok with them and a gauss rifle too And that’s it for now until stalker 2 releases I know I have missed a couple of things but in conclusion: This is probably the most incompetent military in any video game ever.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

They certainly have quite a bad record.

[@dr.markone2275]

Such bad history😂😂😂😂

[@NiceGameInc]

However, they still are good at ruining your day if taken lightly.

[@mongke7858]

Kind of the reason why Duty exists

[@z3r0_35]

One has to wonder what might change in Stalker 2, particularly if the devs decide to move the timeline far enough forward that they might be able to make reference to...certain events that had happened in Ukraine from 2014 onwards, which led to a still-ongoing overhaul of the Ukrainian military.

[@arsmariastarlight3567]

I always think that the military is the counterpart of the mercs, they want to uncover the zone's secrets, they are organized and disciplined, they are distrusted by nearly everyone in the zone, their gear are more advanced than any other faction (on par with monolith) and they don't know much about the zone, with only their superior training keeping them alive instead of becoming worm food. While every faction has their own reason for assaulting CNPP after Strelok disabled the brain scorcher, most of the reason is about reaching the wish granter, but I doubt the military is interested in the zone's myth like that, instead, the reasoning behind military's assault on CNPP could be to uncover the monolith's secrets (maybe for revenge for their soldiers that got massacred in Yantar?) and potentially, another underground labs beneath the CNPP after their encounter with monolith These guys are probably the most annoying to fight, especially during early game, second only to high profile mutants or elite monoliths. They used advanced weapons that hurts a lot, their armor is far better than your bog-standard bandits and they have a tendency to use grenades more often than anyone. About the only saving grace is that they are not as spread out in the zone as other factions and the loot you get after killing them is substantially better than looting bandits

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I believe that you are right.

[@z3r0_35]

"Disciplined" is being generous to the Army. They're stated outright in the games to be corrupt and have terrible morale, or at least the rank and file are. Spetsnaz personnel like Degtyarev are another matter.

[@zherean42069]

Well they're lucky because in stalker call of pripyat at the end of the game they found someone called strelok the guy who went to the center of the zone

[@yellowbirdie7182]

I don’t think they want to “uncover” anything, that’s more of Freedom’s mission. Theirs is to keep it all a secret (or at least minimise the leaks), because people might rebel if they knew what kind of fuckery was allowed in Chernobyl. They’re soldiers of the government, after all, don’t forget.

[@drifrer007]

I wish they werent just enemies and were neutral and aggresive to factions like monolith

[@rysiukowal]

Man, it's just terrifying to think how many lives the Zone would have taken. Innocent people, army personnel, all the stalkers, and many more...

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, the Zone probably killed thousands...

[@simjammed1868]

The cordon gunner has given countless stalkers PTSD.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah probably.

[@Bolshevik.remover]

And he given peace to many more. The eternal one.

[@homastechniciantaurus9712]

If he does every faction, then i would hella excited to see UNISG.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I probably won't do more faction videos. Besides, UNISG does not appear in any of the games.

[@homastechniciantaurus9712]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Oh :/ Well i hope the videos will still be great like this one.

[@_454_]

isn't that faction exclusively in anomaly?

[@homastechniciantaurus9712]

@@_454_ It appears in the more popular mods but UNISG is a cut faction. They were supposed to appear in Clear Sky but due to time they had to cut it out of the game. They would have probably appear in Generators, which is another cut location. It would have been somewhere above cnpp. Their mission is unknown and almost everything about them is also unknown. The info we get is (the info above), a dialouge from Hog (a mercenary in army warehouses) saying how they use no guide to reach the deeper parts of the zone without a guide, they would have used a red / white monolith suits (due to time they would sometimes do that) and the only confirmed ally would have been Scar. Just incase you were wondering, UNISG stands for United Nations International Science Group. To answer your question, it's kinda a 50/50 since they were cut so anomaly just added them in, just like renegades. It would have been a really good faction if they had the time to add it in.

[@_454_]

@@homastechniciantaurus9712 interesting! can you please give me some mods that includes them? i played solyanka already and anomaly. i want a mod that has a dense long story like solyanka (loved it). doesn't matter what game

[@moody1320]

Oooooh just when I was done with my military playthrough in Anomaly, reached veteran, got killed by the controller in x16 Dimitri was a good soldier

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Rest in Peace Dimitri.

[@mackenzie_88]

Dmytro

[@zherean42069]

DIMITRI NOOOO -reznov

[@loader2755]

Fun fact: first playthrough of cs i accidentaly took a wrong route and skipped the machine gunner

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Good for you!

[@lambda-m1676]

That's not a wrong route, that's the 2nd entrance to Cordon.

[@loader2755]

@@lambda-m1676 thanks for info

[@zherean42069]

You just escape death

[@tungoviet6189]

Really love the chronological order of events you had put in the video, from Scar to Marked One and Major Degtyarev

[@NiceGameInc]

Có người việt ở đây? Tôi là người Đức. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. là nổi tiếng ở việt nam?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright, great then.

[@tungoviet6189]

@@NiceGameInc I don't have any information about that, the only thing i know is up to now I haven't ever found any channel in Vietnamese that has S.T.A.L.K.E.R. content, or they just don't want to share any thing about that.

[@NiceGameInc]

@@tungoviet6189 I see, It's great to see people from around the world enjoy the zone and stalker lore, too!

[@bastiisalive]

@@NiceGameInc i kknow right, we got Stalkers all over Asia, Vietnam, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, etc

[@furiousfelicia5751]

I kind of wanted to start writing a story about Stalker using existing lore but also adding my own ideas.. One of those ideas was that the military is partially responsible for stalker population in the zone. Sidirovich and the military are cooperating in that regard where Sid gets the military to turn the blind eye on a novice getting smuggled in the zone (rookie village) for a fee which Sid then gets back triple full by tasking those same novices to do tasks for him.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

If you feel like writing this, absolutely go for it. I would love to read what you may have come up with.

[@luiswonder2101]

Sounds interesting

[@spectroelectro3772]

Just asking, where would you put it? I would love to read it!

[@unfortunate1313]

Great video as usual! I love watching your vids man. There's something special about your voicing that gets me into listening :d

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright thanks!

[@ukaszsciso1260]

Great work! Threre aren't many good stalker lore videos, especially in English. I swear i could listen to you for hours, talking about faction's equipment is also a nice touch. Thanks for your work, you got me hyped to play stalker again.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks for the comment stalker!

[@XanderNiles]

The Military really serve as the enemies the player first encounter in SoC and CS. They are indeed a tough faction to deal with and the whole story behind is quite interesting. GJ man!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes that's right, thanks.

[@matthewjones39]

I guess renegades and bandits just don’t exist anymore.

[@LostBear.]

Really digging your lore videos. Hope your channel blows up (not literally) someday. I'm so hyped about Stalker 2, been waiting for over a decade now. Are you going to make Stalker 2 videos once it comes out and you managed to gather lore about it?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks stalker. I can't tell if I will make videos about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 just yet, we'll have to wait and see.

[@semird615]

Another amazong video. Your breakdown of the military operations is on poimt and very detailed, there were some details I wasn't aware off. I'm hoping this channel is going to br big with all the stalker fans and the release of the sequel people are only going to be more Interested in the secrets of Th Zone. Awesome editing and very discriptive and detailed explanations of the events to gomalong woth it. This is by far the best Stalker related channel on KZbin.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Glad to read that, thank you stalker!

[@arthurcolina-greninger5017]

3:09 "because of this poor protection..." he says while a grunt takes an entire mag dump to the face

[@anomalousdugout9557]

A soldier from the special forces would have taken 2 or 3.

[@o80y1]

My current playthrough of Anomaly is a Ukrainian Spetsnaz operator; but since there’s no IWI Tavor 21 nor an IWI Tavor X95, I had to convert a HK SA80A2 to 5.45x39mm Soviet to be close enough to a replica of the licensed Fort-221 carbine

[@ayobaribi731]

Top tier content as usual... Love ur videos

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you stalker.

[@nickduracell4364]

Very nice video once again! Keep it up bro!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you stalker!

[@andresantonio3339]

Very informative man, love the content

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright thanks!

[@tristanbeattieeyzaguirre]

Very cool videos, the accent makes it x10 cooler, thanks mate!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great!

[@wanderingRebel69]

Just subscribed your quality bro love your channel keep it up brother

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@RootBeerBender69420]

The reason as to why they're so corrupt and suck at their job is because it's a security service, not a National guard or active duty service, they're more of a counter-terrorism/civil unrest fotce than a military, they get poor pay and funding, and most of the equipment they're sent from ghe military is pretty terrible or in already bad condition except maybe the T64s which are all but abandoned since the REAL military pulled out. Only thing going for them is the units such as spetsnaz and the helicopters/vehicles from outside of the zone, personally I think Berkut (State Security Servicr of Ukraine) is gonna be disbanded and replaced with fhe Ukrainian national guard like they do irl, or the real military.

[@_-Xenon-_]

What a cool little channel I found here Earned a sub, nice work

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@CM-bk8lo]

Appreciate the videos man

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great then!

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

Eeee yay! My favorite faction, awesome video! ^_^ Even if they are secondary antagonists, and fail a decent bit, I like them.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great then!

[@TheUnaBoomer]

Great content!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@Kuro-UWU]

Underrated video and underrated channel.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@Kuro-UWU]

@@anomalousdugout9557 I spread your channel link in some famous STALKER groups, keep it up legend

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@Kuro-UWU Alright thank you very much!

[@hunterfranklin1948]

How do you get the shots of the military deployed and waiting to move? All the cutscenes you do are really good! Great camera work!

[@vanilla7751]

Great job man. I love the military 😎👍

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright, thanks.

[@skullgaming5405]

What if you, wanted to cross the cordon, but the military gunner said: haha machine gun goes bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Indeed.

[@BoutaFit]

Just slapped the army base close to newbie base in SoC - am I the only one who got a shot with sawn off from like 50-60 feet, I thought I was a hacker hahaha

[@firefox7658]

"They're only following orders..." I think I've heard that one before

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you covered this faction my man.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I'm glad as well.

[@sirfanatical8763]

Thanks for the info. Did you cover all factions?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I only did the factions that were interesting, that is Renegades, Mercenaries and Military.

[@sirfanatical8763]

@@anomalousdugout9557 thank you but I'd like to learn more about duty and freedom

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@sirfanatical8763 Play the games and you will learn pretty much everything there is to know.

[@szariq7338]

Btw armymen are kind of stalkers themselves, at least in SoC when killed they can give coordinates of stashes, which sometimes contain artifacts.

[@alyctro8158]

I would not be surprised if the military were the ones who also hire the mercenaries. Since they can deploy undercover agents. It is also funny that with their resources and connections they still struggle with the zone. There are supposedly vehicles able to operate in the anomalous areas inside the zone, modofied by the stalkers such as Cardan, it is revealed in the outro. But who's the final enemy if the c-conciousness was destroyed.

[@volchonokilliR]

I just want to add that "Military" as defined in the game is a confusing term. All of the patches and mentions actually are not about army, but about two different structures. Army (military) is Ministry of Defense. SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny, СБУ) aka SSU (State Service of Ukraine) is a structure on it's own and is under authority of the President of Ukraine. Another structure which is labeled as "military" in the game is Ministry of Internal Affairs (you can see МВС on patches - Міністерство Внутрішніх Справ). To understand what this ministry is, one of the biggest structures under Ministry of Internal Affairs is what is nowadays a national police (it was militsiya back in 2006). Both SSU and police can be and are militarized when needed, and have their own special forces (spetznas - term from USSR, in russian - specyalnogo naznacheniya, translated as "special purpose [forces]"), but they are not army.

[@gandzia8106]

Very interesting video

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@SomalianIchimi]

in soc, most of the time i killed the whole guards under the bridge or passing them through the broken fences (near space anomaly if it's in cs). but surprised when i actually can bribe them with only 500 rubles lol. and idk if it's true or not but if you pass the bridge with bribe, sometimes later you'll find the rookie village was wiped out by the military, so in the end i always choose to shoot them (at least you can sell their loots and 74u is always a better choice than bandit mp5). 74u changed my early gameplay before i can get strelok's fast ak.

[@alemilano5576]

Everyone subscribe to this man - see how much time he spends making nice videos for us! Btw AD if you ever read this, are you Italian by any chance?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I already have plenty of subscribers. Also I'm not Italian.

[@alemilano5576]

@@anomalousdugout9557 oh i really tought you were italian by your accent, well cheers man - really nice videos! All the best

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@alemilano5576 Thanks, truth be told I'm French.

[@alemilano5576]

@@anomalousdugout9557 oh thanks for sharing

[@antithely1081]

"they are only following orders" i said the same during the trail but they still pluged me guilty

[@somevid4802]

I died many times during this part lol 00:00 - 00.11 btw nice video :)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah I think we all did.

[@lefevrecorinne7608]

Hopefuly major (colonel after CoP) Degtyarev could fix some problem within the military in the zone

[@zargouellette3668]

13:39 "Snuck in", more like straight blasted his way through the entire complex. Lol

[@VaNDaIUKR]

12:16 i see what you did there... There is rumor that some individual helped the Ukrainian authorities to obtain such maps... He had strange nickname like Eagle or Sapsan or something like that

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I heard such rumors, and stories about antennas...

[@THE_MR_MAN]

thank you this is a good faction!

[@Mulmus8i]

I realy like your videos

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great, thanks.

[@loader2755]

Another banger

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

In anomaly I used to see and hear the helicopters sometimes but I am playing Gamma now and after a lot of hours I have not seen one or heard one. Maybe they took them out in gamma or maybe I am not far enough along since I haven't went past the barrier yet

[@isaiahdees2309]

mutants: I am afraid of no man, but the lmg at the military base... it scares me.

[@casseyvincent7875]

finally the millitary video.thx stalker

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes it's here!

[@sparksprintshorts1]

Is there any chanse i can join scientist's faction? I have seen your previous video about you talking for freedom and duty but you havent talk about scientists mercenarys and other

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Unfortunately you can't.

[@valdemarpena8378]

Hey can you please do a video of hidden location and how to get to them. For example that bed location in radar where there a metal door that has a password and broken ladder or that use anomaly to transport you to different place

[@anomalousdugout9557]

There are not much secret locations like this. Besides, I showed how to unlocked the doors in Radar in a previous video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3fJqYeOobCtm9U

[@monolith9613]

Loner's : eats at 100 rads bar in peace Duty : STALKERS JOIN DOOTY PROTECT THE INNOCENTS

[@samargrewal929]

nice :)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes :)

[@halfbakedchannel6065]

Do a lore video on the cordon army outpost commander next

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I don't think I will, sorry.

[@halfbakedchannel6065]

@@anomalousdugout9557 i was just fooling, love your lore videos man

[@zoneoperator1419]

I think a big step for the military in the right direction would be establishing some sort of intelligence network inside the zone. Informants, spying on communications, or working closer with ecologists. Many of their downfalls come from a lack of information about the zone. If they had a better understanding they could approach the zone with some tact instead of just slamming their troops into it and hoping to come out victorious. Unfortunately the only time they seem to adapt is after a catastrophic failure. We'll see what their plans are in STALKER 2

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I believe you are right. Maybe the authorities will allow more contacts with stalkers aimed at learning the Zone, especially after the success of Major Degtyarev. Hiring Strelok as a consultant was also a step in that direction. Anyway, hope to see new videos from you soon!

[@zoneoperator1419]

@@anomalousdugout9557 I'm working on it, I've just been wicked busy D:

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@zoneoperator1419 Alright, take your time.

[@SpartanPZR]

Can you make a video on Freedom?

[@omangus]

Masterpiece

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Still not perfect.

[@omangus]

But close enaugh😁

[@jackturner-bogdanzivojinov1385]

9:29 Did you get this gun as a reward from bandits or by completing side missions for stalkers in Army Warehouses?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I think side missions in the Army Warehouses.

[@jackturner-bogdanzivojinov1385]

@@anomalousdugout9557 You lucky bastard. I tried many times to acquire it in the Army Warehouses but never succeeded. Did you side with a faction or were you just a mercenary?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@jackturner-bogdanzivojinov1385 According to my save, I was just a mercenary.

[@karpai5427]

Seems like every faction was supposed to hunt for the documents of the x labs.

[@user-fr4bs3pd5b]

The name of PKM soldier is Volodymyr Vist

[@FurryFailure]

Great video, very interesting, The military is one of my favourite factions next to the Ecology, and Mercs. Playing the Alife Warfare mod for Anomaly as Military (With tweaked values) and controlling the entire zone felt somewhat very immersive, as though it was their final push. With Dynamic Relations, they teamed up with the Mercs, and even Freedom for a bit before I ultimately had to cut ties with Duty, then relations failed with the Mercs and Freedom. In the end It was just myself, and the Ecology, and I regretfully had to Order 66 them, personally assassinating the scientists to ensure the knowledge never leaves the Zone. I gunned down the final scientist as he fled while I was listening to Firelake to really embrace that feeling of emptiness and "I'm only following orders, I'm sorry."

[@anomalousdugout9557]

The military has such a depth, certainly one of the most important and interesting factions.

[@engineermole2688]

Sounds like assinment to the Zone is a alteritve to military Prison or a penal detachment for the grunts, they are given whatever the quartermaster find at the bottom of the store bunkers with key points given actual armemrments of weight, Supprised there not more Mosin-Nagants or SKS's about. Or those higher officers are put there to stop there incompidance from effecting other matters of state

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, that could definitely be the case.

[@ConstantBit9]

Ye know when you have to leave the Swamps for Cordon? Yeah, I call that "Reverse Normandy"

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's not that hard if you know the tactics. I actually made a video about that a while back.

[@thatoneguy-nf7su]

There seems to be very little amount of call of pripyat content on youtube

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Compared to other games, yeah maybe.

[@ghostsbyk173]

The military is like the second mercenary faction, only that this time, they kill every single faction other than Duty and the Ecologists, since they want to find information in documents, conclude experiments in the zone, et cetera.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I guess that's correct.

[@nerfspartanEBF25]

One thing that always confused me was why a lot of regular Army grunts are seen with AKS-74U's. Now sure, rare weapons are relatively well represented in the Stalker franchise, but considering these are regular soldiers from a real military force that actually exists, how many of them carry AKS-74U's is quite strange, considering it's a Spetsnaz and second-line weapon for tank crews and truck drivers and the like and most of the soldiers should be carrying the full length rifle version.

[@Konrad6123]

3:09 "Beacuse of this poor protection..." you say it exactly when a soldier tanks almost entire mag of AK into the chest XDDD

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, that's the power of editing.

[@preserveourpbfs7128]

Interestingly (for me, anyway), the State Security Service of Ukraine, usually referred to by the Ukrainian initialize SBU, is not quite the military. It’s more of a successor to the Soviet era KGB.

[@pedovezpedovez8631]

not wright!

[@drifrer007]

I remember seeing in Soc and it said get your documents out so i put my gun away and go up to them and they start shooting. Now I know why they shoot stalkers

[@enriquelopez.e1231]

I know the military are strong but they semmed to get destroyed or barely scaped the factions in the STALKER games,heck one of the most dangerous factions are the ones who pray to a rock.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

In my opinion, the army was most screwed over by the Zone itself, not so much by the factions (at least when it comes to special forces and military stalkers). Mutants, anomalies, blowouts and psi-emissions got the better of them. If not for such phenomenons, the military would have defeated the Monolith and captured the CNPP at the end of Shadow of Chernobyl.

[@casseyvincent7875]

anomalous pls do the last faction about the ecologist or scienties

[@anomalousdugout9557]

You mean in a lore video, or a campfire story?

[@casseyvincent7875]

@@anomalousdugout9557 just do like this video

[@Ajaxlynx]

i wonder how the grunts on the ground feel about being posted to the zone they must have pissed in some1 coffy to get sent here

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah that must be the worst place to be.

[@jvgrunt7898]

Superbe

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@ejcruz3520]

I mean they are high-risk ammo and gear source everytime i boot my stalker games lol

[@latewizard301]

If only the military knew the secret to avoiding emissions.. stand on top of the NPP.. :(

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Ahah yes!

[@makykyhoveci2460]

yea i once did see a millitary guy and started yelling STALKER! and i was like yea he did see me and then another one started yelling stalker too and started shooting at the millitary guy i was just watching

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright, yeah.

[@dr.markone2275]

Stalker became better if u could macke friend with military and thay could help stalker if they wernt hostile. Right?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I guess that's right.

[@mongke7858]

Getting a contract to be a military stalker would be nice. I wonder if any mods have that.

[@rdg665]

Military has a weird relation with emissions haha

[@dutyer2005]

I’m stuck trying to get into the zone in clear sky holy shit dude why can’t I get past that god damn gunner

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I made a video showing how to pass it, I hope it helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIjbnqWfiNZ0j68

[@dutyer2005]

@@anomalousdugout9557 thank you so much dude you’re the best

[@vladneacsu]

I used to think the Military were absolute clowns till I played Call of Pripyat. That game gave them a human side.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I understand.

[@lanecolvin95]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R getting a bunch of loot is so satisfying

[@Ricky-ce3jo]

We all know the greatest soldier is Viva Vost

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's right.

[@engineermerasmus2810]

Mybe in Stalker 2 they will be actually strong... So they would be an actual threat.

[@z3r0_35]

Or, potentially, an ally, depending on the choices you make.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah, maybe.

[@ResistanceLion]

It's called NSA, rather than State Security Service (SSS)

[@happymeme1329]

Their helicopters are probably the most powerful element they use

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah, they are strong machines to deal with.

[@xXRealXx]

If the zone was a thing thing would Ukraine collaborate with Russia or the US? Maybe both? There's no way they would have enough resources to do everything they want to in the zone. The US is always eager to use its #1 military in the world for something and Russia would likely be interested too. What do you think, would the US try everything it could to get into the zone? On a side note, I hope Stalker 2 will show us how the world reacted to the zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I do believe that Ukraine has some sort of collaboration with Russia. This would explain how they get modern russian weapons. However, I'm not sure about the US. As we saw in the last video, it is possible that the western countries are operating in the Zone through the Mercenary faction. I think this is more likely than an American/Ukrainian military collaboration, but I could be wrong.

[@Anton-xz4qg]

Well, in Clear Sky UN troops are mentioned, but they are probably at outer perimeters of the zone , while in game we only see a part of the inner perimeter (Cordon). Ukraine probably gets a tons of money founds from UN, US, Nato and Russia (probably Russia also gives equipment) in universe. Also the Ukrainian goverment probably tries to keep critical infromations about the zone for themself, so letting international and foreign troops inside the zone would probably a bad idea for them.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@Anton-xz4qg Yes, I think you are right.

[@z3r0_35]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Maybe not in the timeline of the released games, but in our own timeline, a revolution in 2014 led to the replacement of that government with a pro-NATO one. If that still ends up happening in STALKER's timeline, that might change.

[@bigboi7817]

I wanna see ukraine cut in half like in rl. Russian army on one side and ukrainians with american gear and advisors on the other with everyone else caught between. Unisg and army are fun in anomaly. Ukraine is gonna get smoked by russian in RL so maybe the zone keeps the russians at bay?

[@l9ino170]

The military get along with Duty but not Freedom

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Do they though?

[@l9ino170]

@anomalousdugout9557 yeah bra that's why even in the video they mention the dealings between Duty and military. Their philosophies are aligned in that they are both opposed to the zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@l9ino170 Put a soldier and a dutyer face to face and guns will talk.

[@l9ino170]

Duty was founded by ex-military who got left behind during the first military containment expeditions of the mid-2000s, they are on friendly terms @@anomalousdugout9557

[@somedesertdude1308]

​@l9ino170 ok

[@ac-251b37-yNx]

chad sky

[@quanghuynguyenang8455]

Only Military Stalker have Mi24 hind

[@pedroferreira4323]

if they don't bother me i don't bother them