Berlin - German soldiers are overweight, smoke too much and do not engage in enough sports, according to a report published Tuesday by the parliamentary commissioner for the defence force. “Male and female soldiers are too fat, partake little in sports and pay too little attention to what they eat,” Reinhold Robbe said in his official report to parliament. He called the situation “shocking.”
h/t Drudge
This plays in with one of my pet theories by the way. Namely, I think that part of the reason that the militaries of socialist names suck so badly is due to the enormous cost of their socialist programs: They simply can’t afford a top-notch military like our own. Part of their governmental model, if you want, is there is a beneficent super power willing to watch their backs for them, while they squander their excess productivity in providing unneeded services to lazy slackers.
It is a crazy world indeed.
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