Improving In-Theater Maintenance for the Bundeswehr

摘要

Even though a final evaluation still needs to be conducted on the implications, particularly for maintenance, of establishing the Joint Support Service (Streitkraftebasis) in the German Bundeswehr (Federal Defense Force), a broad range of insight can be gained from past years' deployment operations. The phrases "train as you fight" and "think operational" are often used with utter conviction, but whether they have been appropriately implemented in all facets is doubtful.