The Bundesheer, the modern Austrian Army.

[austromunga]

Your welcome...

Here's another...... I would hazard a guess at the end of an exercise for reservist/home guard owing to the grey haired gentleman!!! and the OPFOR helmet band visable on the M58 stalhelm (see example) on the guy just behind the other fella!! this guy would also seem to be sporting a KAZ59 panzerjackie ,note he is also wearing his STG 58 mag pouches at the front perhaps to allow for more comfortable/easier access in prone side pose...
also in the background is perhaps an observer in the feldkappe leaning against the "church" on the top of the hill!!
question...... any idea's what the brown?? leather satchel/pack on the squad leader on the far right is!!???? looks too large/deep to be a map case!!???

[ErWeSa]

Although this thread is about the modern Austrian army I'd like to mention its predecessor, the "B-Gendarmerie" with its uniforms that were very much inspired by another period.

See here:

Bundesheer - B-Gendarmerie - Fotogalerien - Die B-Gendarmerie I

Bundesheer - B-Gendarmerie - Fotogalerien - Die B-Gendarmerie II

Bundesheer - B-Gendarmerie - Fotogalerien - Die B-Gendarmerie III


Very rare items!

[Reibert]

Nice "SALTY" beret Reibert !!! and some good info on the Jagerbatalion too!!!!

Hi !

Here´s an, (unofficial, private purchased), patch, manufactured in the KOSOVO based on an sketch of a JgB.25, (KU-Coy), soldier.
There´re only less than 100 pcs. made !

Holy Barbara looks sexy, doesn´t she ?

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Very nice and ample evidence of the changed roles and mission of the Bundesheer in the last twenty odd years.

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You will have to sell back your Pinzgauer to the BH you got at the Dorotheum sale, now that there are no trucks left.

Bundesheer greift seine Reserven an - Sicherheitspolitik - derStandard.at

[Friedrich-Berthold]

And, the food has been downgraded, which is worse than losing the Pinzgauer, too.....

Don't ask me here how I know, but I know.

I also read it in the newspaper in addition to tasting it, or not tasting it.....


Grenzeinsatz lähmt Bundesheer - news.ORF.at

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I include all of this as NO ENDORSEMENT OF A POLITICAL PARTY IN AUSTRIA, but out of a deep affection for Austria, its Army, and its Soldiers.....and my friends.

[ErWeSa]

Nice Brettljause, not for Wehrmänner I'm afraid.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

So right you are, dear friend. The food has gotten very bad, and everyone is in a very bad mood because of it.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Jause is a wonderful word, actually.

Etymology

From Slovene južina.
Pronunciation

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Noun

Jause f

(chiefly Austria) snack

External links

Jause in Duden online

[Friedrich-Berthold]

When I say Jause in Berlin, and I do not shrink from doing so, my Prussian female friends are perplexed.