Poll: Military Service

[B.T.]

Hi there, everybody!

I served as a conscript in the German Bundeswehr for 15 month (From 1985 to 1986). Although we were adressed as "Panzergrenadier", we were "Jäger". We were equipped with the M 113, but normally marshed without our PCs.

Most conscripts had a very bad training, but I served in an unit, that should be one of the first at the inner-German frontier, if there had been a war. Well, luckily there was none and I'm more than glad, that it came out that way.

Compared to other German units, our training was good enough.

[Ramjam]

Hi guys.

7 years as a FO in the Royal Artillary than transferred to the Royal Logistics Corps for another 4.

Some of my holiday spots included the Gulf (91), Bosnia (94 & 95) and Kosovo (99).

I always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and somehow got volunteered to go somewhere dangerous.

[Earthpig]

Originally Posted by B.T.

Hi there, everybody!

I served as a conscript in the German Bundeswehr for 15 month (From 1985 to 1986). Although we were adressed as "Panzergrenadier", we were "Jäger". We were equipped with the M 113, but normally marched without our PCs.

Most conscripts had a very bad training, but I served in an unit, that should be one of the first at the inner-German frontier, if there had been a war. Well, luckily there was none and I'm more than glad, that it came out that way.

Compared to other German units, our training was good enough.

You didn't have an American M 577 attach itself to your unit in the '86 REFORGER exercise, did you?
If so, It was our company Operations Sergeant.