108 Stars, on Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:49 PM, said:
karri, on Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:53 AM, said:
Today I got a registered letter. I was again scared to death as every time I have got one it always contains a call into military service. Last time I received one I was called in for two weeks in -32 degrees.
WTF!?
They call you into the military? And not just for a few months once in a lifetime, but occasionally for a few weeks?
Errr, 108 Stars, this also was (or is it still?) common practice in Germany to draft reservists from time to time for some weeks, look up "Wehrübung" on the German language version of Wikipedia. When I left the German Federal Navy after my year of service, I also was informed that I could be drafted for defence training, but it never happened (mainly due to the end of the Cold War, I presume, plus I was radioman aboard the minesweeper "
Ulm" and cryptographic and communications technology changed continously - we were demanded to use morse code for most of our ship-to-ship and ship-to-land communications, e.g.).
Edited by Thorsten Günther, Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:05 AM.