Like a sailor

Shocking news, even German sailors drink too much and play sexual games on board their ship. The Kapitan has been known to use unusually rude language when addressing his subordinates. Sometimes ordinary sailors get revenge on their officers in sneaky ways. All of this produces a scandal at the highest level in Germany, with calls for the defense minister to resign.

Presumably no navy in the world still rules its own through "rum, sodomy, and the lash," nevertheless it is really quite amazing to see how sensitive the German press has become to even the slightest bit of unruliness in its military, and these were sailors on an three masted "tall ship" as opposed to a heavily armed modern vessel.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gorch-fock-affaere-kapitaen-nannte-soldaten-minderwertiges-menschenmaterial-1.1051091

Perhaps we should all continue to be grateful that the German military is so remarkably lamb-like, but the political scandal has been, when compared to any number of American incidents, down-right silly.