Posted on 05/04/2016 2:44:24 PM PDT by Syncopated
A pair of stories out of Germany today illustrates the persistent gap between the lofty, ambitious rhetoric and small, faltering actions on government and defense in Europe today. The Telegraph reports:
German soldiers taking part in a four-week Nato exercise in Norway earlier this year had to leave after just 12 days because they had gone over their overtime limits, it has emerged. Troops have complained to a parliamentary watchdog that they are being forced to spend entire days doing nothing under the new rules.
“It can’t be that we can’t fulfil our Nato obligations because of overtime,” Hans-Peter Bertels, the German parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.[..]
Under the latest reforms, in force since January, the military working week has been reduced to 41 hours and troops can no longer be paid for working overtime.
Blockheads!
Muslims don’t take breaks.
Maybe Trump is right - Europe is not pulling its weight.
This is the kind of BS Trump was referring to when he was talking about our NATO allies not pulling their own weight
Does this mean that Germany is defenseless on weekends and holidays?
Dissolve NATO. Protect only our friends: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Israel and a very few others.
Crap on the rest of the world. They want Hillary for president.
Well, if they weren’t wasting billions on entitlements for Muzzie invaders maybe they would have enough for their military to train. As it is now, they have already allowed over a million Muzzie invaders into their country, so why even have a military force?
Yes Prime Minister - https://youtu.be/DUzRJfAc-HU?t=3m36s
Don’t say that so loud! Putin is curious!
I remember being on duty for 36 hours straight once without sleep. I almost hit the German limit in one stint. I wonder if Germany’s enemies have limits like that.
Germany screams. “Take me Islam Give it to me hard”
Let’s be real.
The US’ list of actual allies goes something like: Canada, Australia, UK.
Most of the nations referred to by the term “ally” really should be called vassal states.
For example, if Germany was actually an independent nation and not a vassal state of the US, the wiretapping of Merkel would have been a really really really really really big deal.
I forgot to name this trio and you’re absolutely right.
Exceptions:
You may have to work more than 48 hours a week on average if you work in a job:
So they are talking our of their collective....
Having once been property of the USMC I can assure you, I never even dreamed of anything like overtime rules.
In fact, I remember people praying that tomorrow would be hot enough to trigger the mysterious rule, which seemed to dictate to the tenth of a degree just where mercy began, that would permit us to receive chrome domes for a few hours.
Don’t forget mandatory Union coffe breaks.
It got this bad because NATO has been providing security cover for the slow, steady infiltration of statist, progressive-left government.
This is unbelievable. For me, a 12 hour day was short day. 16 hours days were common and sometimes we went even longer, with a waiver that was always approved. And we were aircrew. The ground pounders had no such limitations. And overtime?! No such thing as overtime in our military. Today’s German army would collapse even faster than the French army of 1940. Much faster.
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