Yup, but they have no chioce afaik. They can choose not send their troops but they can't kick the US soldiers out of Germany. They're still paying for a little incident called World War II. I think Permenant US military bases were written into the post war agreement or war debt payoff somewhere. Mabe some of our German friends can correct me if I'm wrong. BTW Germany has the largest number of US troops out of the rest of europe combined.