(No498) German Bundeswehr beret cap badge MILITARY TOPOGRAPHER

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Original German Bundeswehr Cap Badge TOPOGRAPHER, PERFECT CONDITION, cca 50 mm high Money back guarantee on originality. There is a great opportunity to save on postage: if you buy anything else, the further item(s) will be posted for free. I am happy to send more HQ photos by e-mail if required. The Bundeswehr ( German for "Federal Defence Force") comprises the unified armed forces of Germany and their civil administration and procurement authorities. The States of Germany are not allowed to maintain armed forces of their own, since the Basic Law of Germany states that matters of defense fall into the sole responsibility of the Federal government.The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte ) and a civil part with the armed forces administration ( Wehrverwaltung ), the federal bureau of procurement ( Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung ) and the federal bureau for information management and information technology of the Bundeswehr ( Bundesamt für Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnik der Bundeswehr , sometimes abbreviated as IT-AmtBw ). The military part of the federal defense force consists of Army ( Heer ), Navy ( Marine ), Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Joint Support Service ( Streitkräftebasis ), and Central Medical Services ( Zentraler Sanitätsdienst ) branches.The Bundeswehr has 247,100 active troops. Of these 188,112 are professional soldiers, 25,566 18–25-year-old conscripts who serve for at least nine months under current laws, and 33,417 Volunteer conscripts serving a longer military service. In addition the Bundeswehr has approximately 350,000 reserve personnel. Women have served in the medical service since 1975. From 1993 to 2000, they were also allowed to serve as enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers in the medical service and the army bands . In 2000, in a lawsuit brought up by Tanja Kreil , the European Court of Justice issued a ruling allowing women to serve in more roles than previously allowed. Since 2001 they can serve in all functions of service without restriction, but they are not subject to conscription. There are presently around 14,500 women on active duty and a number of female reservists who take part in all duties including peacekeeping missions and other operations. In 1994, Verena von Weymarn became Generalarzt der Luftwaffe ("Surgeon General of the Air Force"), the first woman ever to reach the rank of general in the armed forces of Germany . In 2006 Erika Franke became the second. After World War II the responsibility for the security of Germany as a whole rested with the four Allied Powers : the United States , the United Kingdom , France and the Soviet Union . Germany had been without own armed forces since the Wehrmacht was dissolved following World War II . When the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, it was without a military. Germany remained completely demilitarized and any plans for a German military were forbidden by Allied regulations. Only some naval mine-sweeping units had continued to exist, but unarmed, under Allied control, and not as a national defence force. Even the Border guards was only established in 1951. There was a discussion between the United States , the United Kingdom and France over the issue of a revived German military. In particular, France was reluctant to allow Germany to rearm in light of recent history ( Germany had invaded France three times in the previous 80 years). However, after the project for a European Defence Community failed in the French National Assembly in 1954, France agreed to West German accession to NATO and rearmament. With growing tensions between the Soviet Union and the West especially after the Korean War , this policy was to be revised. While the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) was already secretly rearming, the seeds of a new West German force started in 1950 when former high-ranking German officers were tasked by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to discuss the options for West German rearmament. The results of a me... read more

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