Tuesday, March 9, 2010

General fears Cuddle Bundeswehr



Berlin - Is the once exemplary army to withstand only a toddlers group for wimps who are only in plush sleeping bags? Wolfgang Schneiderhan, General Inspector of the Bundeswehr, feared it and called by the soldiers, therefore, more responsibility and a greater willingness to serve the state.
What many expected "all-round feel-good offer with sense of achievement" can not be guaranteed, "said Schneiderhan on Monday evening at a reception ReinholdRobbe Defense Commissioner of the Bundestag in Berlin.
He regarded with concern that politicians and military institutions, they opened a "glut" of proposed solutions to problems and thus an "escape route from their own responsibility."
The provision of inappropriate sleeping in the Congo mission was probably from some media interest, but should "rise to any parliamentary concern. EinemBerufssoldaten, complaining about a third of the foreign assignment, should be said clearly that there would be no remedy - whether denndas views his profession.
The complaints hesitate to by all ranks and ages. The Inspector General emphasized that he would attach his observations carefully and not generalizations. Maybe the problems lie, inter alia, on the societal tendency to want to delegate responsibility to general stress and changes in the Personalauswahl.Schneiderhan offered to all parties to communicate openly about the difficulties.
Robbe himself emphasized that the German population, if at all, take only marginal share of the heavy deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. The soldiers wanted to see but "nothing more" than the assessment of their performance. They need moral support and human attention.
The Bundeswehr is just a pile full of wimps?
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