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Old February 29th 04, 04:24 PM
Owe Jessen
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Am Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:45:38 -0500, schrieb "Kevin Brooks"
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Thanks to all for clearing up something I was wondering about for some
time. BTW, the WBK is AFAIK the territorial army (not part of NATO),
which would have "garrision duty" in case of a war within German
borders (organising callup of reserves, protecting key installations
and so on).


They sure seemed to be an integral part of NATO when their rep briefed our
engineer OBC class back during the mid-eighties. I am not sure how any
element of the West German armed forces could have been labled as not being
"part of NATO"? We expected to work with them if the situation had ever
turned nasty, and I am pretty sure that in the event of war they reported to
the responsible military commander for their respective areas.


I mean in the sense they were not under command of NATO, but of the
ministry of defense. All German field units were part of the integral
command structure, but the territorial units were under German
command. Everything AFAIR, of course. :-)
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