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 the “Hamburgers”. From my point of view, this is a subject which is hyped by …

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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 mounting a Network …

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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 amount was so high, our promotion …

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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 4 was pretty easy, not much physical work but a lot of theory outdoors while it was SNOWING. For heavens sake, its mid of April, and its snowing??!?!?!? I didn’t have any problems that there wasn’t much physical work in schedule this week, but this week I was looking forward to do something physical. …

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I know i know, i didn’t update my diary for quite a while now. All those of you that were already in the army will understand that i was just sleeping and sleeping and sleeping during the weekends… Well, below you can find what I experienced the last weeks.

Now, my first week in RS is over. I’m dead! it felt like i was already 5 weeks there. Here a short resume of what i can remember…

Just a quick thank-you to everyone that celebrated the funeral of my civil life. It was a cool evening! @die chris: don’t worry about the sound, i heard worse

Well, this is the first article for my army-diary. I could not find much useful information on the RS on the internet, so i decided to create a diary of my RS and sum up some of the highlights and things that every recruit should know. As not everyone speaks english, i will translate the …

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Yep, you’re right. After i got the Swiss passport, I have to join the Army. I know, I didn’t write anything about the recruitment, i’ll give you a quick resume of what happened. – October 2004: I finally get the Swiss citizenship and can apply for a Passport – June 2005 : I get my …

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