The Swiss air force: armed and dangerous, but only in office hours

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It's no fly-by-night military outfit and it doesn't start work too early in the morning, either, as the recent Ethiopian Airlines hijack proved

There's something almost too civilised about a country whose fighter jets stick to office hours (note to would-be terrorists and airspace infiltrators: they also stop for an hour and a half for lunch, and there's no service at weekends). It was French and Italian jet pilots who escorted the Ethiopian Airlines plane hijacked by its co-pilot safely to Geneva airport on Monday morning – because, at 6.02am, it was still nearly two hours before the Swiss air force came to work.

"Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend," spokesman Laurent Savary told AFP. "It's a question of budget and staffing."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/19/swiss-air-force-ethiopian-airlines-hijacking-office-hours?CMP=share_btn_link

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Just be glad they don't keep banking hours

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Switzerland. One of the few places on Earth that has enough brains to comprehend that spending billions on arming people, calling them soldiers (that's the best), telling them they fight for their country, sending them to wars which are always about money and put fear in people that some other country wants to attack them is not the way to run a country, but a way to destroy it.