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00:00-00:10 Haderslev, Denmark 
00:03 Report / Teri Schultz
00:20-00:24 Col. Kenneth Strom / Head of Danish conscription 
00:36-00:41 Leorah Olsen / Conscript
00:47-01:02 Sebastian Hedegaard / Conscript
01:14-01:26 Col. Kore Jacobsen / Regiment commander
01:48-02:11 Teri Schultz / DW Correspondent
02:36-02:43 Gen. Christian Hvidt / Danish Air Force 

Script:

Haderslev Army Base is where Danish troops last fought a war on their own territory in 1940… and where they’re reinforcing their ranks in case there’s another one. 
These new soldiers are the first to enter training since Denmark expanded conscription, more than doubling the length of service and making it gender-neutral.

SOT: Col. Kenneth Strom, head of Danish conscription
“It makes the possibility to have more combat power and have the combat power faster."

While military service is mandatory, now for both men and women, there are more than enough volunteers to fulfill recruitment needs.

19-year-old Leorah Olsen is one of them.

SOT:  Leorah Olsen, conscript
“I’m mainly here to challenge myself and to learn a lot of things.”

Sebastian Hedegaard says he’s excited but also realistic about the risks of joining the military.s

SOT: Sebastian Hedegaard, conscript 
Sebastian: obviously going to war is a big part, but maybe it won't happen. Maybe it will. It will take one day at a time. 
SOT: Teri: Do you think it's closer than it was a year ago?
SOT: Sebastian: yes 

Addressing the previously unimaginable scenario of a U-S invasion of Greenland may require adjustments to a strategy that’s long viewed Russia as Denmark's only real adversary.

SOT: Col. Kore Jacobsen, regiment commander
“I know I need talk to them about it and I know some of them are actually quite eager to know what are the Danish defense going to do? What are the government going to do about this.”

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Sending more soldiers to Greenland is one way the Danish government has responded to the Trump administration's repeated refusal to rule out Greenland’s involuntary annexation. 

But just as this crisis eased through negotiations, Trump kicked off a new firestorm by saying NATO allies had stayed off the frontlines in the war in Afghanistan. 

PTC: Teri Schultz 
This caused fresh anger and outrage among Danes who lost more soldiers per capita in Afghanistan than any other country besides the U.S. Citizens put flags bearing the names of their 44 fallen service members here in front of the U S embassy in Copenhagen. The embassy removed the flags. It later replaced them with the small plastic versions, but the damage was done.

Thousands of people, many of them military veterans, later held a silent march and replaced the individualized flags.
One of those was retired Air Force General Christian Hvidt, who’d never participated in a demonstration before. But when Trump said America had been “alone” in the Afghan war, that crossed a line for him — because he had personally deployed Danish troops there. 

SOT: Gen. Christian Hvidt, Danish Air Force (ret)
“That's a stab in the back, simply, because that's a lie. We were there from day one.”

Denmark hopes “days” like that, active warfare, won’t come again…but it’s going to have thousands more soldiers ready if the fight does come to them.