Around 60 missions since 1990. Worldwide. Tens of thousands of deployed soldiers. Hundreds of injuries. Over 100 fatalities. These are the bare numbers. What lies behind them? What exactly does the Bundeswehr do during its missions? And what do the soldiers accomplish there? This book provides answers to these questions, from the perspective of individual soldiers, through their very personal viewpoints. Unfiltered, unvarnished. But not without pride. This is also important. Because the relationship between Germans and "their" Bundeswehr is a complicated one. Mockery and derision are certainly directed at the military when defense projects go awry. Recognition, as is a societal consensus in the USA and the UK, is hardly given to individual soldiers here at home. Yet it is our democratically elected representatives who send German soldiers into missions.