Yup. Not much to do. Ach, I'm thirsty.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Germans have been shaken by recently disclosed reports on the state of their troops in Afghanistan. Too much time “sitting around” in has led their soldiers to be overweight and consume beers daily.

Of course, Germany has to blame itself first. From the Post:

Last year, the German armed forces shipped more than 260,000 gallons of home-brewed suds to its troops serving in northern Afghanistan, as well as more than 18,000 gallons of wine. On a per-soldier basis, that was the equivalent of a ration of 26 ounces of beer a day, all year long.

This pipeline of booze running from the homeland to Afghanistan could be a contributing factor to the fact that 40 percent of German soldiers age 18 to 29 were overweight. That’s even higher than the percentage in the civilian population. About 10 percent of soldiers are considered clinically obese.

A passive lifestyle, combined with the beer and sausages a-plenty are blamed for the downfall of the German troops’ conditioning. Not even Poland is scared anymore.