From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 07:45:14 MDT
Dehede011@aol.com:
>I was based in a foreign country.
>I lived on an American base.
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that there are exceptions for
following local laws for U.S. citizens living on military bases. Or if
there are exceptions, then it must be due to complicated treaties and
arrangements between the local governments and the U.S. military. I
pretty sure that the ~200,000 U.S. citizens living on the military
bases near here are subject to German laws.
(BTW, I have met only two of this military-related population within
the last ~4.5 years of my living here. U.S. military people and their
families in this part of Germany rarely venture outside of their
"city-within-a-city".)
>2. I did not go there voluntarily, I was sent there as a serviceman by
>my government.
I'm very sorry about that (really).
Amara
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