German Marines are back and looking sharp

Germany long fielded Marineinfanterie units, especially during the World Wars of the 20th Century, along with ship detachments, the latter coming in very handy during the Kaiser’s colonial period (1884-1918). German marines of III. Seebataillon in Tsingtao, the Kaiser’s China treaty port, which still has a very good German-style distillery. Bundesarchiv, Bild Bild 116-214-09 German Marines in Peking, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion. AWM A05904 Disbanded in 1945, the West German Navy (Bundesmarine) reformed a Seebataillon in 1958, which was disbanded in 1993 when the Cold War thawed. Now the Marines are back, reformed once again in 2014 as a specialist unit tasked with VBSS via a Bordeinsatzkompanie (BEK) and ship/installation ground defense. Der Teamführer Hauptbootsmann Alexander West gibt seinen Kameraden ein Handzeichen im Rahmen vom Training der Bordeinsatzkompanie (BEK) der Marine in Eckernförde, am 28.08.2017. With Europe getting increasingly wacky, starting in 2016, the…