https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed In the past two years, nearly 500 soldiers have requested to leave Germany's voluntary armed forces for reasons of conscience. https://www.thelocal.de/20160802/hundreds-seek-to-leave-the-german-army-bundeswehr Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:46:04 +0200 hundreds-seek-to-leave-the-german-army-bundeswehr Complaints among Germany’s armed forces are up 20 percent in a year, despite the number of soldiers shrinking from 200,000 to 185,000. A delay in paying medical bills and worries over forces reform were the main causes of unrest in the ranks. https://www.thelocal.de/20131022/52521 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:06:00 +0200 52521 The trial of six German naval sailors accused of mutiny by writing racist slurs on a superior officers legs after tying him to a table opened on Tuesday with a confession - it had all been a revenge prank. https://www.thelocal.de/20130924/52073 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:58:00 +0200 52073 A group of German naval sailors have been accused of mutiny - attacking a superior officer, tying him half-naked to a table and writing racist slurs on his legs. https://www.thelocal.de/20130227/48225 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:16:00 +0100 48225 German soldiers and missiles seem likely to be posted to Turkey’s border with Syria soon. One report suggested the government was checking the legality of such a posting, ahead of a Turkish request expected on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121117/46219 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:58:00 +0100 46219 The scandal over treatment of cadets on the Gorch Fock navy training ship widened Monday, when the father of a young woman sailor who drowned after falling from the ship in 2008 was demanding a fresh inquiry. https://www.thelocal.de/20110124/32617 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:37:00 +0100 32617