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On 7 June 1955 the office became the Ministry of Defence, or Bundesministerium für Verteidigung in German. The Bundeswehr was established and Germany joined the NATO the same year. In 1956, Germany reintroduced conscription, and the German military
Until then there was a rate in hours both services had to serve, which was then divided by the average daily work hours in military and civil service. Thereby, civil service tended to be 1–3 months longer than military service, as the latter used to have 50 working hours a week (as opposed to 40 working hours in civil organisations).
The National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course (NGASOC) is considered to be the most challenging and hardest course. The two-year course is attended usually by 100 national and international participants from Army, Air Force, Navy, Central Medical Service, Armed Forces Logistic Services and Cyber-Information Services.
The Army Office was subordinate to the General Staff. After the disbandment of the Army Office and its merger with the Army Forces Command, its premises and large parts of its personnel have been transferred to the new Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre ( Amt für Heeresentwicklung, AHEntwg ), which also inherited the Army Office ...
The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries. In 2016, it employed around 6,500 people; 10% of them are military personnel who are formally employed by the Office for Military Sciences. The BND is the largest agency of the German Intelligence Community.
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The commander of all training schools is the Deputy Head of the Army Office. Most of the German Army training schools are responsible for the continuation training of a specific arm of service . The commander of each school is usually also the General of the Artillery , General of the Infantry , General of the Armoured Corps , etc.
The Armed Forces Staff, in the meaning of General staff, of the German Bundeswehr (German: Führungsstab der Streitkräfte - Fü S; literal: Command staff of the armed forces) was the central department of the Federal Ministry of Defence (MOD) in direct subordination to the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (en: Chief of Staff of the Federal Armed Forces) and one of the five staff ...