Cpl for Life
German Airborne originally known as Fallschirmjaeger- "hunter from the sky" and were Luftwaffe in world war two
following website seems to be good GERMANY - A Country Study http://www.country-data.com/frd/cs/detoc.html#de0158
Germany Foreign Military Relations: International Military Missions http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5010.html
Djibouti agrees to German 'anti-terror' base http://www.iol.co.za/general/newsview.php?art_id=qw1010852642683B221&click_id=68&set_id=1 for example I found about 335,000 sites. Research means that "research"
Today:
"The army's twenty-four combat brigades include sixteen mechanized brigades, three airborne brigades, one mountain brigade, and the German component of the Franco-German Brigade. Only six brigades are maintained at full strength--two airborne brigades, three mechanized brigades, and the mountain brigade. Some of these ready brigades are committed to the NATO Rapid Reaction Force. All of the active units are staffed with a high proportion of regulars. The remaining brigades are staffed at about a 60 percent level in peacetime, mainly with conscripts. In each brigade, one armored battalion and one infantry battalion are filled out by drawing cadres from staffed units when expanded to full strength. Tanks and other armored vehicles of the cadre units are stored, as are 25 percent of the vehicles of active battalions."
source: http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5001.html
you can also email the German embassy in Ottawa for copies of press releases ,next both the BBC and Guardian have search able features for news articles
good luck