Posts Tagged ‘army’

This particular scene attracted my attention the other day at the barracks.

In my last post I mentioned that we were going to Parent’s Day at the Swiss Army Barracks of our son in Frauenfeld. In fact he sleeps in Frauenfeld due to size constraints but spends all his active time at Auenfeld Barracks a few kilometres away.
I won’t go into the details of the day but [...]

Although it has become a little easier these past few years, army training is still more or less obligatory for men in Switzerland. Our son has been doing his “Service Militaire” since October and tomorrow is Family Day. The day starts at 9.00am on the other side of Switzerland over 300kms from Geneva.
So tomorrow morning [...]