Schnitzel Korps
They’re calling it a wurst-case scenario. Das Bundeswehr über alles. Bei Kilos. via Boston Herald:
BERLIN - Armies march on their stomachs, the old saying goes. The German Army apparently could stand to march a little more.
An embarrassing parliamentary report sent to the Defense Ministry says German soldiers may be fonder of the schnitzel than average civilians. The report advocates a blitzkrieg on the Bundeswehr’s sloth and gluttony.
“Soldiers are too fat, don’t do enough sports, and don’t pay attention to what they eat,” wrote Reinhold Robbe, the parliamentary commissioner for the military.
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Germany once had the leanest and meanest army in Europe, but it has not deployed its soldiers in combat since World War II, though German soldiers have been rolled out as peacekeepers in the Balkans and in non-combat roles in Afghanistan.
I wouldn’t want to be the one to say it, but if they just exercise them a little …
Topics: Germans, dummkopf!, military, schnitzel
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:29 am on Thursday, March 6, 2008
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March 6th, 2008 at 1:38 am
I’ve heard that there is great exercise to be had in almost all areas of Afghanistan.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Jeez! The Bundeswehr has gone downhill since 1983. Back then, if you went on temporary duty to any German kaserne, you weren’t required to eat in the mess hall, because they didn’t feed you worth a dang. That’s where I was introduced to blutwurst, an experience best left unshared.
And German soldiers loved eating in US mess halls because the food was so much better. From which any US veteran of that era could accurately discern the level of Bundeswehr cuisine. The only time they got feed decently was in the field, and then the German loggies just threw pre-packaged rations at their troops most of the time. Said rations being stuffed to the gills with commercial crackers, cheese, chocolates, meats, etc. Quite yummy, filling, and nutritional, and a definite step up from C-rations.
And looking back…..I don’t recall ever seeing a fat German soldier. Quite the opposite.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am
From the Volga to the sands of North Africa German soldiers are probably spinning in their graves at the state of current Bundeswehr. - well those that have graves still.
ugh - blood sausage. tried it a couple times and never again and I’m of German ancestry
March 6th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Back in 1983 there was at least the small (but very real) possibility of Russian tanks and airplanes smashing through the border. That’s a pretty good incentive to keep an army fit and ready to fight.
Now, though… why be prepared to fight when you know it will never happen?
March 6th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Blutwurst is definitely an acquired taste.
Or try the Polish dish Tchaina - a small bowl of duck’s blood…
March 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
See of hands who think the mighty Bundeswehr will be deployed to Kosovo in force. when that powder keg goes off.
One…..two…..two……two…….two……..right, not a lot of us think they’ll go. Just as well the Ukrainian airlift command has a weight limit on troops.
I would have never thought the we would be mocking the German army as unfit , unable, and unwilling to contribute in any significant way to NATO or in defense of the Fatherland.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
“Back in 1983 there was at least the small (but very real) possibility of Russian tanks and airplanes smashing through the border.”
True enough, FB. And they still had a good leadership cadre (NCO and commissioned), with a heritage derived directly from the Wehrmacht, and unsullied by socialism.
“I would have never thought the we would be mocking the German army as unfit , unable, and unwilling to contribute in any significant way to NATO or in defense of the Fatherland.”
Yeah, they’re ready to join with the French and Arabs as the butt of military jokes. Although we’ll lose at least one:
“Why did the French plant trees on the Champs Elysées? So the Germans could march in the shade.”
Or change it somehow. Any ideas?
March 6th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Well, we could try and have the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad returned to Germany and recognized as Koenigsberg as it was it was prior to the Red Army overrunning it in 1944. That should get a lot of blood boiling (and not for sausage) and maybe shake up the Bundeswehr. Of course another Russian front probably doesn’t sound too appealing to the Germans.
A down side might be ticking off the Poles which are one of the few NATO allies that actually fight by our side.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:31 am
[...] They stopped because of the IRA threat. Now it’s peacenik thugs. They’re studying how the public in the United States, Canada and France treat their military (check Germany … they’re fattening them up. It’s a no-heavy lifting job). [...]
March 8th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Feeding the Frontsoldaten better than the guys in the rear is an old tradition in the German Army. Bill Mauldin, in his book “Up Front,” recounts meeting a German prisoner who had volunteered to give up his safe, rear echelon job to join the infantry. He explained to Mauldin that it was the only way he could get anything decent to eat.
In one of the Asterix comic books Asterix, the Gaulish warrior, explains that “The better the army the worse the food. That’s what keeps the men in a nasty mood.’ He then takes his first taste of Roman Army rations, makes a horrible face, and pushes away the plate. “I didn’t think the Roman Army was THAT good.” This explains MREs.