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Question time part second..

Posted by luchs on 05 Jan 2010, 19:13

ok ,
now make it serious..
get a look at these photos..

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now tell me what kind of army this is..
I give the right answer at 1800 pm tomorrow..
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Posted by Peter on 05 Jan 2010, 19:21

Well I give it a try:

1st picture: German :think:

2th picture: Belgian :mrgreen:

Just a try :?
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Posted by musketier on 05 Jan 2010, 20:06

AHA! here's my off the wall guess.
1st pic=Swiss
2nd pic=Luxembourg
hmmm no coke bottles this time??
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Posted by monty on 05 Jan 2010, 20:09

first pic austrians i think

second swedes perhaps
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Posted by Paul on 05 Jan 2010, 20:29

Dutch and Polish
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Posted by Martin on 05 Jan 2010, 20:30

Well I think that both are hobby armies.
Re-enactors on a team building course:
First pic: trying to feel like german mountaintroops.
Second: after a good conversation in a cabin on the heath they try to walk like GI's after a long march.
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Posted by atlock on 05 Jan 2010, 21:11

both are dutch...
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Posted by ModernKiwi on 05 Jan 2010, 21:24

Nice one Luchs, I had to think about this one for quite and while and do some research.

The top one is definitely West German, from the time between when the FN-FAL was used (56-59) and the G3 was adopted. They were also sometimes using a cammo pattern uniform before adopting the olive drab one.

The bottom one is also West German from the very founding days of the new Wehrmacht.

And I sort of cheated :oops:

Found them both in here:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... hp?t=75882
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Posted by Dad's Army on 05 Jan 2010, 21:25

German and Dutch :?
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Posted by M. Hazelton on 05 Jan 2010, 23:54

West Germans

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Posted by zzed on 05 Jan 2010, 23:55

Hungarians and Polish
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Posted by Benno on 06 Jan 2010, 16:05

Martians.
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Posted by west1871 on 06 Jan 2010, 16:11

first pic swedes
second pic Belgian
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both sets of squaddies look pissed off with the weather :lol:
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Posted by luchs on 06 Jan 2010, 18:08

ok..
it time to give the answer..
the winner my be modernkiwi because said that both was early west germans..
but the question was "what kind of army this is ?"
and the right answer is " there not a army pics there are old pics of the german BGS, the west german border police , the first organised armed force of the west german before was organized the new federal army"
i hope someone find all this funny :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Posted by musketier on 06 Jan 2010, 20:20

tosses in more hand grenades :violent: :joker:
Nice one I knew it was going to be a tricky one :thumbup:
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Posted by west1871 on 06 Jan 2010, 20:46

better luck next time :thumbup:
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Posted by Peter on 07 Jan 2010, 08:19

Good one luchs :thumbup:
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Posted by Paul on 07 Jan 2010, 16:40

Well I was nearly right. The bloke right at the back picking his nose in the second photo is P.Jasinski, and the bloke driving the vehicle in the fiirst photo, both his parents are dutch, I´ve forgotten his name., but I swear it´s all true!!!! :-)
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