Some recent (and official) numbers about the Bundeswehr:
http://www.bundeswehr.de/C1256EF4002...ersonalstaerke
187.319 professionals (either on 4- or 12-year contract)
40.342 conscripts
22.732 conscripts who volunteered for longer period of service (no civil job available...)
Fallschirmjäger (Paratroopers) of Fallschirmjägerbataillon 261 and 263 where '93 send to Somalia (UNOSOM), '94-'00 to Balkan, '02/'03 to Afghanistan. Surely, they are way better trained than some Panzergrenadiere ...