Last September, while Ukrainian troops were battling pro-Russian separatists on the eastern edges of Europe, a German battalion participated in a NATO exercise in Norway. They didn’t have any weapons with them, but the German army, the Bundeswehr, has long been used to shortages of equipment. So the soldiers knew what to do: They took a broomstick, painted it black, and holstered it to the vehicle where a gun should have gone.
A few months later, German television reported on the incident, and defense officials didn’t deny it happened. They simply said that weapons weren’t even required in that particular exercise …read more
Source: European Voice
