If you bring it up with German Army members....most will grin and tell you the minor benefit that they have....with free haircuts.
The German government pays roughly half-a-million Euro a year....to operate sixty-seven barber-shops or salons for military folks. Free haircuts are the result.
Historically, I think you can go all the way back to the Prussian Army and show that they also provided free haircuts.
Well....this weekend, it came up and the audit folks for the government have asked that this benefit be shut down....suggesting within five years.
Reaction by the military folks? Not much has been said.
Haircuts in Germany aren't necessarily cheap. Most shops will charge a minimum of 12 Euro ($14 to $15 US dollars) for a guy's haircut.
The benefit here was that you had this shop on your post and you could ask 'Sarge' every three to four weeks to give you an extra half-an-hour for lunch and get your haircut. If this is implemented, you'd have to go off-post.
Will it occur? I have my doubts. This is simply a suggestion by the audit crowd, and you would think that they'd be in Stuttgart looking at the railway project, or in Berlin looking at the airport project....to find wasteful government spending.
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