What is "cargo 200" and "cargo 300"
What is "cargo 200" and "cargo 300"
Large-scale bloody wars todaybut mothers and wives still continue to receive notifications marked "cargo 200" or "cargo 300", indicating the death of their men in the army or localized military conflicts. They are also found in civil life. What does this terminology really mean?
«Cargo 200»
When transporting bodies of dead or dead peoplein the accompanying documentation it is customary to indicate the mark "200". This practice has been implemented since the time of the Afghan war, when the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a decree on the rules for transporting the dead, which was issued under this number. The word "cargo" was added by the Russian pilots, encrypting their messages to the dispatching service, so that the enemies did not understand what burden they were flying on board - in fact at that time only the bodies of the killed transported by airplane were called the "cargo 200".Today, the type of transport that carries the dead to the final destination is completely irrelevant.However, there is another version of the appearanceof this notation. According to her - the figure 200 indicates the approximate body weight along with the zinc coffin and outfit. According to the fighters, only the coffin weighed about 150 kilograms, but in fact, no one ever weighed the "cargo 200" - in the military environment such manipulations are considered to be the real blasphemy.
"Cargo 300"
"Cargo 300" is a military term,indicating a wounded fighter who is transported from a hot spot. This name began to be used after the Afghan war - during registration of the transportation it was necessary to fill in the standard form # 300. Today, it is often encountered in the negotiations of the special services and the military, which denote the given term the number of wounded soldiers who need to be taken out of combat operations.When carrying coffins with bodies of the deceased on railway transport, the term "cargo 300" denotes a conditional weight of 300 kilograms.The above notations are always indicatedby the rules of cargo transportation exclusively in transport waybills and nowhere else. This is the sending of a coffin or urn with ashes from the place of death of a person to the desired destination. "Cargo 200" and "Cargo 300" can be delivered with or without escort. For delivery, trains, airplanes and motor vehicles are used - while shipping by air over the ocean is the most costly, so relatives can not always get the body of a person deceased abroad if there is not enough money. Transportation by rail is more accessible, however it takes much more time, which negatively affects the condition of the body and nerves of relatives.
