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German army forced to lay down weapons due to 'overtime limits'
UK Telegraph ^ | April 10, 2016 | Justin Huggler

Posted on 05/04/2016 8:54:55 AM PDT by C19fan

The German military, once the most feared fighting force in Europe, is being forced to lay down its weapons by restrictive new overtime limits.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: army; germany
Would laying down of weapons include the broom sticks being used as substitutes for machine guns?
1 posted on 05/04/2016 8:54:55 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

European manhood...


2 posted on 05/04/2016 9:03:43 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: C19fan
Ach, Himmel!

german soldier photo: Aeromoto Volugrafo 125 - Ridden By German Soldier AeromotoVolugrafo125-RiddenByGerman.jpg

More Budget Cuts!

3 posted on 05/04/2016 9:05:16 AM PDT by golux
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To: rrrod

Commie leaders.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 9:05:41 AM PDT by batterycommander (Keep calm and call for artillery.)
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To: C19fan

Would they just leave a field during a battle because they went over budgeted hours?


5 posted on 05/04/2016 9:22:21 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000

Reminds me of the Wiley Coyote and the sheep dog cartoons.

“Night Sam”
“Night Charlie”

- punch the time clock


6 posted on 05/04/2016 9:24:25 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: C19fan

Is this why the Wehrmacht was stopped at the eastern front?

Let’s hope Trump keeps at least ONE promise and stops funding these assholes in the EU who aren’t paying for their own fucking self-defense (overtime my white Irish ass) but ARE paying for muslims to have babies and eat/live rent-free.

I spent three years in Bavaria under the constant threat of having to pack up our shit and hit the road in under 6 hours to race to the Fulda gap to keep the Rooskies at bay and do Nuc-Bio-Chem cleanup as necessary and these worthless fucks can’t complete an EXERCISE because of “union rules”?

What have the Germans become - besides a bunch of girly-men who squat to pee and wear eye makeup to match their scarves - if they can’t even do a fucking EXERCISE for the love of Pete (or Dieter as the case may be but don’t ask or tell or Detlev will get jealous).

Fuck Europa. Give it to the ‘slims.

Rant mode off.


7 posted on 05/04/2016 9:30:53 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: C19fan
Was!?


8 posted on 05/04/2016 9:33:29 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: winner3000

If the opposing forces are in the same union, then yes.


9 posted on 05/04/2016 9:34:00 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (#GiveTrumpAChance and then pray we don't get fooled again)
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To: C19fan
German army forced to lay down weapons due to 'overtime limits'

Now there's an angle the girly boys Obama has left in the Pentagram haven't struck upon, hourly work for the Military. Maybe the SEIU can come in and get their wages boosted to $15 per hour(over three years) and put them all on the clock. What a concept. Time and a half for night fighting? Go for it Obama! Go for it ValJar!

10 posted on 05/04/2016 9:36:37 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: C19fan

The German army is on a time clock?


11 posted on 05/04/2016 9:37:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: C19fan

Eff em. They are NOT a NATO ally with that nonsense.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 9:42:55 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: C19fan
“At the moment the armed forces are fighting teething problems and defects in implementing the new system,” Lt Col André Wüstner, the association chairman, told Bild.

TEETHING problems? Ze Cherman army? Vhat did you chust zay?

13 posted on 05/04/2016 9:46:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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WAS ist hier los?

14 posted on 05/04/2016 10:35:21 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: C19fan

Somebody pointed out that the various European militaries aren’t going to stop sh!t. NATO exists to give the United States an excuse to be on the European mainland as a deterrent and an excuse to get involved on day one of any conflict.


15 posted on 05/04/2016 10:44:34 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

"Tell Ivan we're on break!"

16 posted on 05/04/2016 10:57:02 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: C19fan
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.

This is absurd beyond the usual levels of stupidity.

War does not give weekend breaks, or time off for tea.

Part of the exercise SHOULD BE getting soldiers used to the idea that in actual war they will be pushed to exhaustion and beyond, and will need to find the inner strength to push on. Yes, after the exercise is completed (victory), give them a week or two off to rest up and recover, but they should have completed the exercise.

17 posted on 05/04/2016 11:13:55 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: winner3000

Sure. Dock workers during WWII refused to load ships a few times. Of course unionists would. Germany is basically a big Union now.

But it’s a good thing. The world spent almost 100 years of lives and treasure trying to keep Germany within it’s own borders. They succeeded. Why change a good thing?


18 posted on 05/04/2016 11:38:59 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: C19fan

A female chancellor, a female secretary of defense and a bunch of homosexuals in the barracks. Not my Bundeswehr anymore.


19 posted on 05/05/2016 6:59:51 AM PDT by European Guest (De omnibus dubitandum)
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