My .02 C.....
Did a tour in Italy about 10 years ago.
The European Army is a completely different animal imo, and USAFE will always have my disdain as those dudes never missed an opportunity to drop us in the trees, rather than on the DZ, when they could.
Worse...crews...ever....
These days you will probably deploy from Germany for a year, which will give you about a year actually IN Germany. I would NOT want to deploy from a Euro Army unit as they do not get the training opportunities we do stateside, and have to do more OJT. Not good, depending on your MOS. As a door kicker, I prefer to train my guys PRIOR to being throwing into harms way though, thank you...
I'd pass.
Stay stateside imo...
Did a tour in Italy about 10 years ago.
The European Army is a completely different animal imo, and USAFE will always have my disdain as those dudes never missed an opportunity to drop us in the trees, rather than on the DZ, when they could.
Worse...crews...ever....
These days you will probably deploy from Germany for a year, which will give you about a year actually IN Germany. I would NOT want to deploy from a Euro Army unit as they do not get the training opportunities we do stateside, and have to do more OJT. Not good, depending on your MOS. As a door kicker, I prefer to train my guys PRIOR to being throwing into harms way though, thank you...
I'd pass.
Stay stateside imo...