Defence Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg wants to make military service more attractive. At the same time he can also imagine a "trial period with League". He said on 29 August in a newspaper interview. Herein, the minister some questions about the pending structural reform of the Bundeswehr.
Zu Guttenberg made it clear that he was not trying to abolish compulsory military service in general: " you must remain in the constitution, because we do not know what the situation in Europe looks like in 30 years.
"However, you should make to their design ideas. " If anyone can say today, 'If I do not want to fret, I'm going to go there and not', then we have de facto already a volunteer army
" said the minister.
Minister: Bundeswehr smaller and more make
In this context, he also made clear that the service - especially in the shorter servants - should be much more attractive. That means "no Gammel time, but: skills such as the acquisition of the licenses, regular payment, credit to pension, options on places and much more.
"He could imagine a trial period with the federal government:" After six months can then say everybody, soldier is not for me. And vice versa, the Bundeswehr choose not this young man is right for us.
"said
252 000 soldiers in a total of just 7,000 at the same time for international operations provide. This is not glamorous Image we give here. My goal is to make the army smaller and stronger."He also spoke of possible site closures. When asked how many survive to barracks, the Minister said: "
Very much more than some fear."The decisions about fall but not before the middle of next year.
Interview on bundesregierung.de >>
Source: Federal Ministry of Defence, www.bmvg.de , Burkhard Schmidtke
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