The article analyses some peculiarities of a military profession, works of Russian military leaders (A.V.Suvorov, A.F.Gershelman, V.M.Dragomirov and others), military psychologists, Q-dates and talks with military men and psychological monitoring. Using these data, some military character specific characteristics were singled out, character contradictions were formulated, the ways of psychological help to military men to overcome these contradictions were shown. Some particular attention is paid to moral and spiritual education of military men, personality and self actualization cultivating. Some basic approaches to military men character education are singled out in this article. character, military character, contradictions of a character, education, personality, morality, self actualization