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When 63,000 troops leave your country.
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New plans call for the Ramstein Air Base in Germany to stay open, but with maybe 3,000 troops. There's currently 68,000 troops in Germany. Other German bases would close. New, small ones with skeletal staff's would open in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. Theses would have light vehicles for rapid deployment.
I wonder what this will do to the countries that have serviced all of these US troops.
I wonder what this will do to the countries that have serviced all of these US troops.
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On the other hand the Eastern European countries, will have financial gains, which is only good, concerning their membership with the EU.
Not a threat. Blair has been after the US to be more active, together, in Africa to prevent some of the genocide that's been going on.
Funny thing. Someone said almost the exact same thing in 1910.
If we go after them, I can see the sales of pick up trucks dropping...
I think the new us military will be more agile...more like special ops or a little bigger...to fight terrorists or a troop like the one that attacked the Moscow theater.
Yeah, the days of huge nuclear subs/bases should be over. Highly specialised, small and effective units should be the norm.
So it has absolutely nothing to do with Iraq?:rolleyes:
May have been accelerated by the Iraq circumstances, that's all.
Aladdin,
As a matter of fact, a lot of Germans are. A lot of jobs are going to be lost as well as income.
The remaining 79,990,000 Germans will be somehow more upbeat.
BTW Greenhat, I don't want to start a new thread for just one unrelated question so I'll ask it here. I was watching a programme yesterday about WWII paratroopers and was wondering something: is there an 'unwritten rule' in warfare against shooting a paratrooper when he's descending (and therefore being little more than a sitting duck)? Or are they considered 'fair game' during their descent?
A lot were shot during that war...as they got hung up on trees etc. There's no unwritten law.
At Crete, the British shot German paratroopers as they descended..
In Sicily, Normandy and Holland, the Germans shot Allied paratroopers as they descended...
On Grenada, the Cubans shot at American paratroops as they descended...
No rule, written or otherwise. Combatants are targets, hanging in a parachute or not. Part of the reason that US combat jumps are at low altitude (500 feet). Reduces the amount of time that a jumper is under canopy.
It's because we only see films where our paratroopers are winning and our side would never be shown doing such a dishonourable thing!
Not many others have paratroopers...
That could also be the reason!
The US spends a couple of billion dollars in Germany on facilities, local employees, leases and damage payments. In addition, there is an estimated 500 million spent by the soldiers and their families in local economy. I would hope that sort of money would effect more than 10,000 people...
But I imagine that the loss of money would be more than made up by the feeling that they own their own country once more. Did you read my post about the US naval base on Crete?
Of course it would, they'd much prefer not to have jobs... no income... [/sarcasm]
For the minority, i think that would be the case, but the vast majority would be pleased, i think.