Swedish Army To ONLY Work 9-5

[matcom]

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's armed forces will operate only during office hours for the rest of the year to cut costs, military headquarters said on Friday.

They will also cut fighter plane patrols to a minimum, keep navy ships in port, mothball armored vehicles and stop using large caliber live ammunition during exercises.

The center-left Social Democratic government has told the military to cut spending by 450 million crowns ($54.89 million) this year as part of an overall effort to keep the budget from falling into deficit.

Militarily non-aligned Sweden spends just over 40 billion crowns per year on defense, or some 1.6 percent of gross domestic product.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20030818/od_nm/sweden_army_dc

[Jonte_1979]

1. I hope other countries will respect that

And only invade us between those hours.

[Cush]

7. I'm sorry sir,

But our army is closed right now, please park your tank right over there, and wait until morning.

[Mairead]

2. And of course this evidence of their frailty and

lack of willingness to drain their veins to support a military-industrial complex will immediately make them the target of invasion and takeover.

:evilgrin:

[Cush]

6. oops

wrong post.

[GOPisEvil]

3. We invade at 6:00pm!!!

I'm conquering the bikini team - everyone else is on their own! :P

[emad]

4. must have modelled their esprit de corps on that of....

the swiss navy! (???)

[scrutineer]

5. Well they’re still working

much harder than our vacationing voidoid, Pretzeldent Tipsy W. McDrunkass.

[Aristus]

8. Well have you seen their main battle tank, the Stridsvagn?

There's an armored vehicle that needs to be home with Mommy when it gets dark and the monsters come out!

As Eddie Murphy might have said: "Heh-heh-heh. Look at the little taaaaaaaaaank!

[Kamika]

9. why do they bother with an army ?

I dont get why they even bother to have one when they seem to treat it pretty bad.

They could just get rid of it completely and save alot more.

Its not like a 9 to 5 army will be worth anything anyway