Exactly this (Although then you might find out that the issue could be more about some people being fussy and used to being spoiled rather than ‘malnutrition’)
Are you trolling on purpose or what? What is happening has nothing to do with people being fussy and spoiled. I find it amazing how you can assume that without even knowing the person.
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They have complained, even the officers have complained.
Things did improve after that and he his weight hasn’t gone down any more since they increased the portion size so the 9kg drop was in the first 7 weeks.
He said it was almost as if they weren’t prepared for the number of recruits there were and grossly underestimated the quantities needed. There are more recruits than there have ever been before in Kloten but it’s not as though they were taken by surprise, they knew the numbers beforehand.
I’m just venting really because I feel bad for them all. They’re big enough and ugly enough to fight their own battles.
Don’t even get me started on the medical situation, there is currently a minimum 3 week wait to be seen by the army medics, you’re either cured or dead by the time the appointment comes round. It’s almost as bad as the NHS.
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I’m not sure that his experience is typical but it has certainly been an eye opener.
He wasn’t expecting it to be easy but this has been brutal, far worse than his friends who are stationed in other barracks. I think if they’d been fed adequately from the outset he wouldn’t have found it too bad as he’s actually quite enjoying a lot of the stuff they’ve found.
If your son is tall prepare him for just how small the beds are. I know our son is particularly tall but he has to sleep on his back with his feet poking out through the bars at the end.
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What? Will they at least be suspended from marches etc. then? When I was in the German army a thousand years ago, you could call in sick every morning at assembly and you would then march to the doctor’s with the other malingerers. Max two hours till a doc would see you.
I would consider involving the ombuds person and a lawyer asap.
I’m not going to go into two much detail here but things have been taken further there.
One poor sod ended up in hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia after waiting two weeks to be seen and eventually going to the local hospital when home for the weekend.
A ‘cold’ doesn’t excuse you from anything and they pretty much all had one of those for the first few weeks.
Injuries do excuse them from marches and physical activity even without a visit to the medic. They don’t want to take the risk of injuring them further.
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Swiss not planning with the level of effectiveness of their supply chains? 
The army is a very conservative institution and it may take a while to adjust…or maybe they should consider…privatising it! 
And go back to the days of the landsknecht-a when the Swiss were the most respected soldiers, which is why up to this day they are the popes bodyguards? 
Had to look that word up. Thanks for improving my German…however, no. It was just a flippant comment. (solution would apply more to the NHS)
Edit; btw “Knecht” in German and Dutch, means “a male servant”…explains why I didn’t hear this word before or if I did it was probably in some obscure literature piece.
Landsknecht = German
Reisläufer = Swiss
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Begs the question though, why someone wouldn’t have don’t this already?
(Although any such process would likely require both sides of the story to be heard…)
How do you know they haven`t?
Not just Kloten:
Army serves raw chicken to recruits
The recruits at the Chur barracks are said to be starving and at risk of catching salmonella poisoning, a recruit complains. The army now wants to introduce measures to prevent this from happening again.
- The recruits in the Chur barracks are said to have received too little food for five weeks.
- A recruit said that many of the dishes were not cooked properly.
- The army promises improvement.
At least they got chicken.
2020 so obviously they didn’t follow through with any improvements.
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My son did his RS during covid which obviously complicated the medical situation. Bronchitis was doing the rounds, which he caught. None of them were seen by a Medic (ironic as he is in the Medical Corps). Last year he was rushed to Unispital in an ambulance with a peritonsillar abscess which was a direct result of an unresolved bronchial infection. He also got trench foot whilst in the Army which did get some treatment during his RS. Sounds as though not much has changed.
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If you’d actually bothered to read my reply to Komsomolez you’d know that they already have, more than one of them.
I think I’d prefer the brown slop over that chicken, it’s less likely to make me sick.
The article also said they were not fed enough.
Maybe they are taking the phrase “Lean, mean, fighting machine” a bit too literally.
Well at least AHV pensions are bigger now.
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It sounds exactly as it was for my son so they clearly haven’t learned from their mistakes.
At least my son hasn’t had undercooked chicken that I know of. I don’t think they get chicken very often at all, maybe that’s why.
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Don’t the recruits actually cook their food?