You have been to the Military. Which branch and what was your fitness level?

I served in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) for eight years across three different postings.

As for fitness level, I was classified as T2 — service-fit with restrictions at my medical examination. That meant certain roles were off-limits — nothing in engineering, mountain troops, airborne, flight safety, military transport, protocol service, or medical roles. It didn't stop me from becoming an Unteroffizier working in flight advisory services at the NATO E3-A component in Geilenkirchen, though.

Medical Examination for the planned draft into the Military

I am getting transferred to Geilenkirchen

Got conscripted into the Air Force. Service 9 months.

The Air Force is the best. List all military stations from start to end of your career.

I served in the Luftwaffe — hard to argue it wasn't the best branch! Here's where I was posted:

  1. Goslar (LwAusbRgt 1) — Basic training, six weeks.
  2. Penzing, Bavaria (LTG 61) — The rest of mandatory service as a flight data processing assistant.
  3. Klosterlechfeld (5./USLw) — Officer training course, a few months.
  4. Kaufbeuren (5./TSLw 1) — Flight advisory service training module.
  5. Geilenkirchen, North-Rhine-Westphalia (NATO E3-A/AWACS, Support Wing) — Eight years as an Unteroffizier in Aeronautical Information Service (AIS). This was the big one — multinational NATO posting, much better equipped and fed than the Bundeswehr proper.
  6. Berlin-Tegel (3. Lufttransportgruppe, Bundesministerium der Verteidigung) — Final year or so, mostly watching CSI and waiting it out.

All in, it was about eight years total — started November 1999, wrapped up around 2008.

After basic military training I got transferred to Landsberg am Lech / Penzing.

I am getting transferred to Geilenkirchen

Training / Course in Kaufbeuren

Sergeant-Training in Klosterlechfeld

After a few years in Bavaria and in North-Rhine-Westphalia I moved back home to Berlin.

Got conscripted into the Air Force. Service 9 months.

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