German Soldiers Too Soft, Show Little Desire to “Serve the State”, Inspector Finds
Bundeswehr General Inspector finds Germany’s professional soldiers to be a bunch of softies who don’t realise they are serving in the army. (This is in addition to being too fat to fight and drinking too much.)
German soldiers have been slammed as too soft, lacking discipline, hating responsibility and showing little desire to serve their country by the General Inspector of the armed forces.
Bundeswehr General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn told politicians in Berlin that the once-mighty German army had become a gang of gripers ‘of all ranks and age’.
‘We have given a good account of ourselves in Afghanistan,’ said the general in best-selling daily Bild – but he quickly went on to criticise troops.
‘We cannot guarantee an all-round, feel-good feeling for our soldiers,’ he said.
He cited trivial complaints reaching him about the quality of sleeping bags used in a deployment in the Congo as an ‘embarrassment’ to the parliament.
He also said that complaints were rising from professional soldiers at being sent on missions overseas.
But Herr Schneiderhahn’s blunt message was: ‘There is no remedy for this – this is their profession.’
The inspector general, speaking before an audience of politicians, heads of industry and senior officers, complained of a tendency to delegate blame from officer to officer to other ranks with no-one willing to take responsibility for their actions.
The general urged soldiers to have ‘a better feeling for discipline and to show a greater readiness to serve the state’.
Well, if the purpose of German soldiers is to “serve the state” – as opposed to serving the country or the people, – then maybe we all should hope they keep them soft, fat and drunk.
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