This is the German Armed Forces' newest image/recruiting video ad (the catch phrase is "Wir. Dienen. Deutschland."/"We. Serve. Germany." and though I don't really know what to make of the periods I'm slowly starting to warm up to the phrase.Very slowly. Maybe.) :

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What do we think, people?

Good? Bad? Ridiculous?

(One thing that really shook me: the ( Read more... )

Argh. Dear f-list, if any of you (apart from asugar who seems to have disappeared :( and mackenziesmomma who's been trying to solve this question with me for an eternity now) knows anything about the UCMJ and non-judicial punishments, please tell me if you've got any ideas for this:

( Eh, possible spoilers for one of my stories in the Protect and Survive 'verse ahead... )

or at least contemplate ordering one from gelbe-schleife.de, Germany's equivalent to the (much bigger) Yellow Ribbon Campaign in the US, if you're a German and are tired of the "friendly desinterest" people here in Germany are giving the Armed Forces, the soldiers and most of all their deployments

Why am I saying this? Because fighting season is in ( Read more... )

Been reading... stuff.

( 'Like ice in the sunshine' - 'An Ice-Cream War', William Boyd )

Due to current tragic events I remembered that I promised to blog about Germans and their very difficult relationship to everything military as a third installment to the "On...Germans." tag, which incorporates so far:

On elections.

On heroes.

( Again, that turned out much longer than I expected it to... )

A few weeks ago, I did a posting on elections in Germany and something in that sparked the idea to do some other "Germans explained for the world" postings now and then. So far:

On elections.

Today's posting was inspired by me reading yet another WWII novel taking place in WWII London ("Liverpool Street" by Anne C. Voorhoeve, will write a review once ( Read more... )

Here we go... first book review in English. Yay!

( 'It's got pirates!' - 'Too Great a Temptation', Alexandra Benedict )

Und ich dachte, ich müsste nur drei Rezensionen schreiben... hat sich was.

( 'New York, New York...' - 'Die Prinzessinnen von New York: Ballgeflüster', Anna Godbersen )

but yeah, I did today. But I didn't spend any money on it (and yes, that's everything I'll say about this). Here's my collection of unconnected ramblings review:

(  Became even longer than I expected... )

Komisch, ich dachte, ich hätte schon mehr gelesen, seit ich die letzten Rezensionen geschrieben hab. War aber dann wohl doch nicht so. So schaffe ich die 50 Bücher pro Jahr ja nie.

( 'Als wuerde man sagen: Seid nicht jung!' - 'Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures): True Stories from a War Zone', Kenneth Cain et. al. )