Greetings

[Aolain]

Not to revive, or hijack an old thread, but here goes.....

Back in the 1984 I was attending the Infantry Officer's Advance Course at Ft. Benning. One of the guys in our platoon was a Norwegian Army Major (don't remember the name).

During his service, he had been in charge of (to some degree) Norwegian border guards on the Soviet border.

He told us one day he and his pals decided to screw with the Soviet guards. They marched a handcuffed soldier up to near the border, formed up a firing squad, and "executed" the guy (firing blanks) in full view of the Soviet border post.

They then sat down around the "body" and had a picnic.

A day or two later they got a message from the local Soviet commander that said "we don't care how you discipline your men. But if you would not mind, please do not shoot them in view of our troops. It hurts morale."