Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Matt Whiting wrote in news:52p_i.783$2n4.24268
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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
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Do you have any cite for this? Nothing I can find nor anything
I've heard of before supports this. ( That West Germany paid for
US Military )
Armies Of Occupation are supported by the country being occupied.
I
served as a US Army Color Photolab Technician (1960-1962) and all
of
our equipment and supplies were provided by the West Germans.

Assuming that is true, that is a small part of the cost for
maintaining a military presence.

Who paid for the tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, aircraft, trucks,
jeeps, personnel transports, military member's pay, and the list
could
go on.

Not the country who was putting us up. Uncle Sam; (the US) that's
where all of the money came from.
The West German government paid for ALL of the occupation costs in
West
Berlin of the US, UK and France.
They paid for all of the R&D for all of the equipment? Really???


Parsimonious fjukkwit.

I see you have ceded the debate.

Matt