Skybird
04-26-07, 03:33 PM
The Bundeswehr is in a miserable condition, and dangerously underfunded. It slowly falls more and more behind western standards, as I see it. It also is seriously overstretched by too many oversea-commitments. Unrest, frustration and anger amongst troops as well as the officer corps is high, and spreading. the stupid Tornado mission in Afghnaistan has led to first rebellions and requests to be freed from serving in any function that contributes to that mission, which so far were granted to avoid too big waves in the public.
German TV news just gave this report some minutes ago: there was a new poll conducted, on 24.000 (!) professionals currently in active Bundeswehr-Service. (That is around 10% of the overall BW personell). Participation was voluntary, and anonymous.
a stunning and yelling 96% of these said they feel led by incompetent politicians and feel being let down completely and totally by these - so that if they could have a second chance, at no cost they would choose again to start a career in the Bundeswehr.
Signal can't be given any louder, I guess.
Of the 251.500 members of Germany's armed forces (in total), currently 189.000 are non-conscripts. The land army weapons branch of the BW is 103.000 personell in size :http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/bwde/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4w3DAgCSYGZbn76kT CxoJRUfV-P_NxUfW_9AP2C3IhyR0dFRQALiGVU/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUMvNElVRS82X0FfMVEw )
I'll link to news about the poll if it makes it into the online/print media.
German TV news just gave this report some minutes ago: there was a new poll conducted, on 24.000 (!) professionals currently in active Bundeswehr-Service. (That is around 10% of the overall BW personell). Participation was voluntary, and anonymous.
a stunning and yelling 96% of these said they feel led by incompetent politicians and feel being let down completely and totally by these - so that if they could have a second chance, at no cost they would choose again to start a career in the Bundeswehr.
Signal can't be given any louder, I guess.
Of the 251.500 members of Germany's armed forces (in total), currently 189.000 are non-conscripts. The land army weapons branch of the BW is 103.000 personell in size :http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/bwde/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4w3DAgCSYGZbn76kT CxoJRUfV-P_NxUfW_9AP2C3IhyR0dFRQALiGVU/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvd0ZNQUFzQUMvNElVRS82X0FfMVEw )
I'll link to news about the poll if it makes it into the online/print media.