We do have some volunteers who are working permanently as paid staff for the military. There are maybe about a thousand of them.
The volunteers from our side are supporting the military. We do jobs that the military has to do in other countries. We free up space for the military to fulfill their original tasks. We keep them more or less free from supporting disasters within Germany, aside from very big disasters. Then they come with some units.
I think the co-existence of the THW and the German military makes it that the German military can fulfill their tasks.