Welcome to our slash, a podcast where I read the best post from across Reddit.

Today's subreddit is our slash military stories, where someone yells at a war veteran and

instantly regrets it. Our next Reddit post is from Jehah. I was stationed in Germany during the

Cold War. Our mission was to help secure the border between East and West Germany via two outposts.

There were a bunch of these towers along the length of the border, and we would rotate troops

in and have them stationed there for about two or three weeks at a time. We had this certain stretch

of the border to monitor, and on the other side of the border there were East German towers,

with a few guys in each tower watching us watch them. This was my tour during the Cold War.

All kidding aside, this was a big deal. The US government thought that if the Soviets were

going to start a ground war in Europe, this is where they would do it. Our job was to let everyone

else know and do our best to hold them back. One of our lieutenants decided he wanted to have some

fun and screw with the East Germans a little. There was only so much you could do out there,

so you found your own fun when you could. So one bright sunny spring day, I drove my lieutenant

out to a hilltop inside of the East German tower about a quarter of a mile away. I stopped,

and my lieutenant pulled out a lunchbox covered in aluminum foil with a few coat hangers

twisted around a toke like some strange device. We pulled up, my lieutenant hopped out of the

jeep and he set up his device on the hood of his car in plain view of the tower. Then he opened

the lid and pretended to fiddle around with the insides of the box. He looked around a bit,

and then jumped back in the jeep and we sped off very quickly. What am I reading? That was Monday.

On Tuesday, we did the exact same thing at the same time and sped off. On Wednesday, we were back

doing the same thing. Only this time when I looked at the tower, instead of just two guys with

guns and binoculars, there were four guys staring back at us trying to figure out what the hell we

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