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12 December 2018
Köln, Eiffelland-Retalia
Michael Wurms put his bicycle in the small shed in the garden. Then he locked the shed door, went inside through the back door, walked to the front door, opened it, went to the paper mailbox, took the mail out and went back inside. He lived in a terrace house in a suburb of Köln. The terrace house was of the type with a car garage and the front door on the ground floor, then living room and kitchen on the first floor and the sleeping rooms on the second floor. Behind the garage, there was a small room that his parents used as an office. His mother, a higher-level government official of the municipality of Köln, worked from home every Friday. His father was a general practitioner. He had a brother and a sister who both studied and lived in student houses closer to the city centre of Köln.
There was only one letter in the mailbox, and that letter was for him. It was from the governmental department responsible for the management and planning of the society service. Michael opened the envelope and started to read. The letter was his call to arms. Michael wondered about it, because originally he had been planned in for only civil service. Because he had absolved the Gymnasium, he would serve as an officer. First, he would go through 6 months officer education, and then he would lead a platoon as an ensign or cornet.
Michael didn’t know that all the boys who absolved the Abitur this year and had been deemed fit for service had been called to arms. The government had taken the decision to extend the army (although that had happened behind closed doors; only a small group of people knew about those plans), but without realising that an enormous amount of officers would be needed as well. And those officers were not conscripts. At least not the officers of the rank of First Lieutenant onwards. It was impossible to just open a can of officers; they had to be educated first. And that took time. In order to fill that gap, a massive round of promotions was prepared, former officers were asked to come back with a promotion, and older officers of the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel and higher were prepared for having to postpone their retirements. Furthermore, all the boys who absolved the Abitur this year and were not fulfilling their military services yet were called to arms per 1 February to perform the 6 months education to become Ensigns and Cornets.
The government also had another pleasant surprise. The recent war led to the notion among many young Eiffelloretalians that Eiffelland-Retalia would cease to exist when the Rurikgrad Pact and Serenierre would take up arms again. As a result, many applied for jobs as professional soldiers. The speed with which people came to the recruitment offices was so high that the plans were changed. Originally, seven armies with 120,000 soldiers each were foreseen, of which one would become a professional army and one a partially professional army to man the additional missile batteries. This was changed to six armies with 120,000 soldiers each, of which two armies would become professional armies, and four armies would be filled with conscripts. One of the conscript armies would be dedicated to the missile systems and fall under the jurisdiction of the Air Force.
Among the people who applied at the recruitment offices, there were quite some people who had the ambition to become officers. Instead of going to the officer academies, they would undergo the same training as conscript officers and become ensigns and cornets first, and then follow courses while commanding platoons in order to obtain officer academy degrees and become full-fledged officers in that way.
31 December 2018
Island Rügen, Eiffelland-Retalia
Rathenau Militärausrüstung had once proposed a missile with a range of 1800 km to the Government of Eiffelland. At that moment, that offer was rejected. But then the war happened, and exactly that type of missile was used by the other side. So it was decided to get
This missile was not the only missile initiative initiated by the Government. Rathenau Militärausrüstung had received an order for many surface-to-air missile systems, anti-ship missile systems, ground-fixed tactical missile systems and of course many missiles. A couple of antiballistic missile systems foreseen with a lot of missiles had already been built. At this moment, Eastern Occitania, the Northernmost coastline of Continental Retalia and the Northernmost two islands in the Retalian Sea were foreseen with new surface-to-air systems, anti-ship missile systems and tactical missile systems. The aim was to make the islands unconquerable and the skies above those islands as well as the skies above Eastern Occitania impenetrable for hostile planes. But this happened under strict confidentiality.
Another important decision had also been taken. Despite Eiffelland’s signature under a treaty forbidding chemical and biological weapons, the government had decided to build such weapons. The rationale was simple: Eiffelland-Retalia would not be able to hold off a combined Serenierre/Rurikgrad Pact ground attack, so Eiffelland-Retalia would massively use such weapons if foreign troops would set foot on Eiffelloretalian ground. The use of napalm wouldn’t be a taboo, either. But also this happened under strict confidentiality.
Köln, Eiffelland-Retalia
Michael Wurms put his bicycle in the small shed in the garden. Then he locked the shed door, went inside through the back door, walked to the front door, opened it, went to the paper mailbox, took the mail out and went back inside. He lived in a terrace house in a suburb of Köln. The terrace house was of the type with a car garage and the front door on the ground floor, then living room and kitchen on the first floor and the sleeping rooms on the second floor. Behind the garage, there was a small room that his parents used as an office. His mother, a higher-level government official of the municipality of Köln, worked from home every Friday. His father was a general practitioner. He had a brother and a sister who both studied and lived in student houses closer to the city centre of Köln.
There was only one letter in the mailbox, and that letter was for him. It was from the governmental department responsible for the management and planning of the society service. Michael opened the envelope and started to read. The letter was his call to arms. Michael wondered about it, because originally he had been planned in for only civil service. Because he had absolved the Gymnasium, he would serve as an officer. First, he would go through 6 months officer education, and then he would lead a platoon as an ensign or cornet.
Michael didn’t know that all the boys who absolved the Abitur this year and had been deemed fit for service had been called to arms. The government had taken the decision to extend the army (although that had happened behind closed doors; only a small group of people knew about those plans), but without realising that an enormous amount of officers would be needed as well. And those officers were not conscripts. At least not the officers of the rank of First Lieutenant onwards. It was impossible to just open a can of officers; they had to be educated first. And that took time. In order to fill that gap, a massive round of promotions was prepared, former officers were asked to come back with a promotion, and older officers of the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel and higher were prepared for having to postpone their retirements. Furthermore, all the boys who absolved the Abitur this year and were not fulfilling their military services yet were called to arms per 1 February to perform the 6 months education to become Ensigns and Cornets.
The government also had another pleasant surprise. The recent war led to the notion among many young Eiffelloretalians that Eiffelland-Retalia would cease to exist when the Rurikgrad Pact and Serenierre would take up arms again. As a result, many applied for jobs as professional soldiers. The speed with which people came to the recruitment offices was so high that the plans were changed. Originally, seven armies with 120,000 soldiers each were foreseen, of which one would become a professional army and one a partially professional army to man the additional missile batteries. This was changed to six armies with 120,000 soldiers each, of which two armies would become professional armies, and four armies would be filled with conscripts. One of the conscript armies would be dedicated to the missile systems and fall under the jurisdiction of the Air Force.
Among the people who applied at the recruitment offices, there were quite some people who had the ambition to become officers. Instead of going to the officer academies, they would undergo the same training as conscript officers and become ensigns and cornets first, and then follow courses while commanding platoons in order to obtain officer academy degrees and become full-fledged officers in that way.
31 December 2018
Island Rügen, Eiffelland-Retalia
Rathenau Militärausrüstung had once proposed a missile with a range of 1800 km to the Government of Eiffelland. At that moment, that offer was rejected. But then the war happened, and exactly that type of missile was used by the other side. So it was decided to get
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out of the moth balls and build it. But of course tests were needed. Those tests were carried out from the rocket launching place in Rügen that was normally used for the space plan of Eiffelland-Retalia, Pelasgia and Bourgogne..Today a missile of the new type was fired from here. It hit its target in the North of Eiffelland-Retalia without a problem. Of course more tests were needed. The story fed to the press was that RRF Flugzeugwerke was testing out a new type of rocket, but that unfortunately the test failed, because of which the rocket crashed in the North of Eiffelland-Retalia.This missile was not the only missile initiative initiated by the Government. Rathenau Militärausrüstung had received an order for many surface-to-air missile systems, anti-ship missile systems, ground-fixed tactical missile systems and of course many missiles. A couple of antiballistic missile systems foreseen with a lot of missiles had already been built. At this moment, Eastern Occitania, the Northernmost coastline of Continental Retalia and the Northernmost two islands in the Retalian Sea were foreseen with new surface-to-air systems, anti-ship missile systems and tactical missile systems. The aim was to make the islands unconquerable and the skies above those islands as well as the skies above Eastern Occitania impenetrable for hostile planes. But this happened under strict confidentiality.
Another important decision had also been taken. Despite Eiffelland’s signature under a treaty forbidding chemical and biological weapons, the government had decided to build such weapons. The rationale was simple: Eiffelland-Retalia would not be able to hold off a combined Serenierre/Rurikgrad Pact ground attack, so Eiffelland-Retalia would massively use such weapons if foreign troops would set foot on Eiffelloretalian ground. The use of napalm wouldn’t be a taboo, either. But also this happened under strict confidentiality.