WK 2008 – here we go

This years WK started as i expected. We arrived at the train-station, and waited. No one to pick us up. About am hour later a bus turned up. After a 10 minute ride we arrived at our destination. We got our material (sleeping-bag, spare uniforms, etc) and ate...

WK 2008 – Early bird

I’m sitting in the train on my way to the other end of Switzerland to serve my country for another 3 weeks. I’ll try to give regular updates on what is happening here. I just hope the mBlogging plug-in works 🙂

Media-Mania: Hamburger baptism

Everyone that has served in the Swiss army will know the term „Hamburgertaufe“. Currently, a „Media-Mania“ about this rite is going through the swiss media. Most of the articles report of excessive abuse of alcohol and neglecting the dignity of...

It is over!

Finally, after 21 weeks, I can return to normal life. Army is over. I know that I didn’t update my diary for quite some time now, so here a short resume of the last 8 weeks. Most of the time we were on exercises training our skills and getting the routine in...

Goodbye Kloten

Week 13 LAST WEEK IN KLOTEN! One last inspection by the school commander and then returning all material that we got so far. This took 3 days. in the end there was about 4000 Swiss francs material missing. We found most of it in other companies…. but as the...

Sorry, but i’m back

I know I didnt update the Site for quite a while now, so i’ll give you a short resume of what happened so far.Week 5 and 6 It was the last weeks of basic training, combat tacticts and such bullshit. The Highlight was the AFUCO-Test. There you are tested if you...