06-16-2006, 02:54 PM
Paul,
you are right. This could happen and is possible.
Rules are more strictly than behavior. I knew two DDR officer who served in the Bundeswehr and both wore no DDR medals. One of them studied at the military academy in Moscow and got the white academy badge, but he didn´t wear it.
And the parachute branch is a special branch, you can´t compare them with the rest of the Bundeswehr. They have their own habbits.
I also saw a young lieutenant wearing an soviet parachute badge. After the reunion of Germany there was one company on an airfield were you could make this badge by jumping. I heared they bought the rights from the soviet army.
So rules are in the book and sometimes nobody takes care.
regards
Andreas
you are right. This could happen and is possible.
Rules are more strictly than behavior. I knew two DDR officer who served in the Bundeswehr and both wore no DDR medals. One of them studied at the military academy in Moscow and got the white academy badge, but he didn´t wear it.
And the parachute branch is a special branch, you can´t compare them with the rest of the Bundeswehr. They have their own habbits.
I also saw a young lieutenant wearing an soviet parachute badge. After the reunion of Germany there was one company on an airfield were you could make this badge by jumping. I heared they bought the rights from the soviet army.
So rules are in the book and sometimes nobody takes care.
regards
Andreas
