40% of German soldiers too fat

[Tattila the Hun]

Ah, it's just preparing for the next war. Back during WWII, there were often up to 40% shortage of men in any particular troop. By today's standards, they'd be full strength!

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
One of my favorite images in the funny pictures thread. Finnish army recruits:

Are those the special forces?

[Pekka]

Yeah but I don't think it's THAT funny. There's videos of that in youtube and it's supposed to be hilarous.

To me, it's nto funny as in "HAHA they look retarded!". They're clearly having fun. They've organized some camps, where they can come and spend time outdoors, do something together and not be laughed at.

So to me, laughing at that is cruel and not that funny. That's why they need to do it like that, organize stuff for them and not have others around so much, because they'd be laughed at by idiots. I look at it from parent's POV, even though I'm nto one. If that was my kid in there, and there'd be people laughing at it, I'm telling you guys, they better be not in front of me, because they'd regret it very very fast.

[Riesstiu IV]

I don't see why you're so offended. To me the humor is not that "they look retarded" but in the reaction of their faces. The soldiers look like they're hungover from a stag party and dejected at having to get up a 5 in the morning for exercise routines. My favorite is the guy second from the left.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Nostromo


There was a German military school I heard of. It is said that the training was so tough that you lost the ability to smile or laugh.

I take it that 82 million recruits have passed through it then

[DaShi]

Originally posted by BeBro
Wasn't that always the case?

Pretty much.

[Provost Harrison]

Even better:

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
My favorite is the guy second from the left.

Agh, natural light!

[Lancer]

Next time they find themselves in Russia they won't be so cold.

[Proteus_MST]

We always wanted a heavy infantry in the Bundeswehr but we didn´t want to spend too much money on the heavy weapons.
As you see we have finally found a cheap solution:
Heavy infantry without heavy equipment but with heavy soldiers instead

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Even better:

Colonel von Strohm

"One of teh first things they teach you in military academy, Hans, is never to tell a General he has a chicken on his head"

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Barnabas


Are those the special forces?

The very special forces.

[Dinner]

At least the US Army forces people to stay in shape or boots them out. The pay is decent once you get to NCO rank and you get to travel to a lot of different places so you attract a lot of you guys who like that. Well in the service I traveled all around the US, Germany, England, Korea (twice), Japan, Thailand, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Panama. For an 18 year old kid that's kind of cool.

[Lancer]

I reread your Iraq thread recently Oerdin, very cool.

[Dinner]

It's amazing how bad you spell when you have 10 minutes to write everything and no time to spell check.