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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:18:54 PM EDT
Struggling to fill its ranks, Germany's military is drawing up plans to recruit nationals from other European countries as part of a drive to beef up the armed forces.
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen wants to recruit Poles, Italians and Romanians, magazine Der Spiegel said, citing a ministry document. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-military-foreigners/german-army-floats-plan-to-recruit-foreigners-idUSKCN1OQ14L What could possibly go wrong? 
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:21:43 PM EDT
[#1]
Auslander Abteilung
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:23:31 PM EDT
[#2]
Turkish Foreign Legion...
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:24:20 PM EDT
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I’m starting to wonder if we actually defeated the Nazis, or if they just opted for the long game, sorta like the soviets. The Nazis were pretty cozy with the Islamic countries, probably because of their anti-semitism.
Then again a socialist is a socialist. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:25:37 PM EDT
[#4]
They need a new Hanschar unit
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:26:02 PM EDT
[#5]
Funny thing is they could recruit competent Americans, but that's an admission of defeat one bridge too far.
ETA: I'd put a team set up by @RustedAce @sylvan and @RictusGrin against anything the KSK could put up. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:27:15 PM EDT
[#6]
1st Arfcom
Yeah good luck getting Poles to join 
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:28:11 PM EDT
[#7]
Oh cool so Germany is going to train its new rapugees to take over the country with its own military. What could go wrong?
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:30:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
1st Arfcom Yeah good luck getting Poles to join  "
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:31:23 PM EDT
[#9]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUZp_lxvBk
What could go wrong? |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:33:17 PM EDT
[#10]
So now Germany has apparently crossed the Heinlein threshold and no longer deserves to exist.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:35:58 PM EDT
[#11]
They should not need many, from what I've read they only have five operable tanks per brigade on average.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:37:03 PM EDT
[#12]
Look at the German and Dutch defense ministers
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:37:47 PM EDT
[#13]
This has happened before.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:38:39 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
Struggling to fill its ranks, Germany's military is drawing up plans to recruit nationals from other European countries as part of a drive to beef up the armed forces. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen wants to recruit Poles, Italians and Romanians, magazine Der Spiegel said, citing a ministry document. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-military-foreigners/german-army-floats-plan-to-recruit-foreigners-idUSKCN1OQ14L What could possibly go wrong? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/71/60/4e7160a405a02d6e6c846996c3c7e32b.jpg |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:38:58 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
This has happened before. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:39:49 PM EDT
[#16]
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Oh cool so Germany is going to train its new rapugees to take over the country with its own military. What could go wrong? What better way to show the remaining uppity white holdouts who is in charge. We will eventually have our own interior ministry security force along similar lines. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:40:03 PM EDT
[#17]
There should be enough foreigners already there.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:41:01 PM EDT
[#18]
Yawn... Wake me up when the Volunteer Boer Liberation Expeditionary Force is formed.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:44:16 PM EDT
[#19]
Wouldn't be the first time the Germans had Muslim legions.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:47:08 PM EDT
[#20]
Seems legit
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Posted: 12/27/2018 2:52:54 PM EDT
[#21]
Most of today’s Poland was Germany previously. Poland was about the only country Germany did not actively recruit from for any of their armed forces during the Third Reich. Some Volksdeutsch from Poland probably enlisted but Poland was to be wiped from the map so no SS or Wehrmacht units were named after it, unlike almost every other occupied country including Russia.
It’s ironic how this has changed. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:34:05 PM EDT
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If they do this the FFL is going to have to start recruiting far more Brazilians and Colombians.
There won't be any shortage of Poles,Romanians and Bulgarians if they go through with this.If they opened it up to non-EU residents,they would get 150,000 Ukrainians standing in line to join up by tomorrow night. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:51:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:53:16 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Oh cool so Germany is going to train its new rapugees to take over the country with its own military. What could go wrong? |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:54:37 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Funny thing is they could recruit competent Americans, but that's an admission of defeat one bridge too far. ETA: I'd put a team set up by @RustedAce @sylvan and @RictusGrin against anything the KSK could put up. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:56:51 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Thats how i read it. Train a bunch of loyal brown people. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 3:57:49 PM EDT
[#27]
The Romans found out that this was not a good plan
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:03:32 PM EDT
[#28]
damn when I was over there in the late 80's the Bundeswehr were ate the fuck up. I cannot imagine it now..
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:04:45 PM EDT
[#29]
nothing but pork and pork products during boot camp
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:09:45 PM EDT
[#30]
While we only here about the French foreign legion, I thought this was a pretty common thing for countries to do.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:11:59 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUZp_lxvBk What could go wrong? |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:18:50 PM EDT
[#32]
They need to restore pride in the armed forces so they can recruit good people. No one wants to join a force that is looked down on by the populace.
Not sure if this has happened yet but from what I’ve heard they need to weed out all the Russian speaking East German types. They didn’t have a lot of prospects so they joined the army. My friend’s unit has to ban Russian from being spoken because the officers couldn’t understand. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:20:31 PM EDT
[#33]
Ursula von der Leyen. Sounds like East German, Cold War porn star, lol..
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:23:16 PM EDT
[#34]
Foreign troops will probably be more willing to fire on German citizens should German citizens decide to start showing their displeasure with present circumstances.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:23:17 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Oh cool so Germany is going to train its new rapugees to take over the country with its own military. What could go wrong? 
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:24:51 PM EDT
[#36]
Call me when they restore Division Wiking.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:25:12 PM EDT
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Britain is opening its military to commonwealth citizens who’ve resides in the UK for at least 1 year
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:44:36 PM EDT
[#38]
this is never a good sign for any country........just ask the Romans, just ask the Brits in the 18th century.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 4:46:26 PM EDT
[#39]
I wonder how you say Foederati in German.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:00:18 PM EDT
[#40]
They have their hands full. Why don't they just recruit from the huge number of refuges they took in from the middle east? I don't see anything wrong with training and arming that group of people!
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:20:39 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Most of today’s Poland was Germany previously. Poland was about the only country Germany did not actively recruit from for any of their armed forces during the Third Reich. Some Volksdeutsch from Poland probably enlisted but Poland was to be wiped from the map so no SS or Wehrmacht units were named after it, unlike almost every other occupied country including Russia. It’s ironic how this has changed. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:22:07 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
They need to restore pride in the armed forces so they can recruit good people. No one wants to join a force that is looked down on by the populace. Not sure if this has happened yet but from what I’ve heard they need to weed out all the Russian speaking East German types. They didn’t have a lot of prospects so they joined the army. My friend’s unit has to ban Russian from being spoken because the officers couldn’t understand. However,as to your first point that is true,most Germans don't see much appeal to joining the armed forces. It doesn't pay that well compared to what they would make working civilian jobs,especially in a strong economy,and for cultural reasons,being proud of the military is taboo. The best approximation is comparing the rate at which Americans from say Georgia join the military rather than Massachusetts. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:28:06 PM EDT
[#43]
So nobody wants to fight for a country that doesnt fight for them? I am shocked.
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:28:42 PM EDT
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That is pretty pathetic, maybe they should hire a mercenary army?
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:36:03 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Funny thing is they could recruit competent Americans, but that's an admission of defeat one bridge too far. ETA: I'd put a team set up by @RustedAce @sylvan and @RictusGrin against anything the KSK could put up. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:38:31 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I could see the Poles joining. "We get our own Polish-national brigades, commanded by our own Polish officers " |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:44:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I wonder how you say Foederati in German. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:47:51 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sharpest dressed military in the history of the world, by far. |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:48:37 PM EDT
[#49]
For German Army, read new EU VolksDivision
What happened to that joint Boxhead/Frog division that was formed a few years ago? |
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Posted: 12/27/2018 5:51:33 PM EDT
[#50]
They literally have less working helicopters or heavy armor than the average sized National Guard.
There was a story that claimed that they had some participating in maneuvers with broomsticks because they didn't have enough rifles for even the few that they had. If France were to invade and annex them, they'd win EASILY. This is all the result of them shrinking their armed forces to zero length and spending it all on their socialism and migrant campaigns, because the US was providing the entire sum of their defense, gratis. |
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