first lieutenant mathias laina is a platoon leader in mountain infantry company base need bad reichenhall in bavaria in a few weeks he'll head out on his first foreign mission to mali. will know what we're going to know if anything needs fixing tell me otherwise i'll assume it's ok of walls on. this and i know it's good to have gotten used to the idea of foreign deployment and you learn that early on if you're in the military you're probably going to be sent overseas but you never know when or where or when all of us on the ground. and off our dogs you get your orders and you go where they tell you and. the tradition of course there are ways to get out of those kinds of missions but generally speaking it's not open to discussions and even. those from the us understand about it. mathias is twenty seven years old he and his wife clara live in munich. they got married recently and she's now pregnant mathias and clara grew up in berlin and have known each other since their school days after he graduated from high school mathias signed up for a twelve year hitch in the bundeswehr later he atte