A European army - A wide gap between claim and reality

Skybird · 11-30-18, 07:34 AM

Operetta generals of an operetta army. Battle season starts Novembre 11th and ends on Ash Wednesday.

But hey, we can have even more generals and colonels and office/post holders! (Bundeswehr with roughly 200 thousand men today has several times, many times as many generals and colonels, as the much bigger Wehrmacht had at the height of WWII, it recruited 17 million men between 1939 and 1945).

On a side note, we suddenly have 10 million German veterans, from one day to the next. By a new law from just one week ago, everbyody who just served in any function in the Bundeswehr, and leaves, now has to be called a "veteran". Combat experience is not necessary. Live crisis or overseas deployment, is not necessary. Anybody who spend his time as a clerk in the basement of some food storage bunker in the Lüneburger Heide, now is a veteran. What a huge and battle-hardened reserve we have now, ten million! World, fear the german military power again!

Thats almost as cute as installing cosmetic mirrors in all lockers' doors. Blinding the enemy, you know. Or was itourselves - its easy to confuse these tings these days, where ends "us" and where begins "them", isn't it said that these are fading concepts anyway?

11-30-18, 07:34 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,634 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Operetta generals of an operetta army. Battle season starts Novembre 11th and ends on Ash Wednesday. But hey, we can have even more generals and colonels and office/post holders! (Bundeswehr with roughly 200 thousand men today has several times, many times as many generals and colonels, as the much bigger Wehrmacht had at the height of WWII, it recruited 17 million men between 1939 and 1945). On a side note, we suddenly have 10 million German veterans, from one day to the next. By a new law from just one week ago, everbyody who just served in any function in the Bundeswehr, and leaves, now has to be called a "veteran". Combat experience is not necessary. Live crisis or overseas deployment, is not necessary. Anybody who spend his time as a clerk in the basement of some food storage bunker in the Lüneburger Heide, now is a veteran. What a huge and battle-hardened reserve we have now, ten million! World, fear the german military power again! Thats almost as cute as installing cosmetic mirrors in all lockers' doors. Blinding the enemy, you know. Or was itourselves - its easy to confuse these tings these days, where ends "us" and where begins "them", isn't it said that these are fading concepts anyway? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 11-30-18 at 07:53 AM.