We all probably all have that one person who has this weird tale you've heard, now lets compare stories and not have a sword fight.
When my father was in the army he was stationed in Eastern Germany during 1987, in his visit he visited the Berlin wall and all the fun stuff but his highlight he told me was when some soldiers in the German army had invited the US soldiers to fire their guns. During the time they spent at the range a guy was wearing a trenchcoat and was offering people drinks, this guy had rigged this coat with surgical tubing to become a hidden-in-plain-site flask that held Schnapps and Beer so for 7 hours They drank and shot military firearms also getting to the point to where two guys started to joust with broom handles. Drunk Soldiers shooting guns and jousting, Best time my father spent in Germany.
A year later he was in a Russian Unit for about a month, The Russians were really strict and wouldn't let the Soldiers do anything except shoot an AK-47 once. He told me the Russian unit was the most boring thing he'd ever done while transferred with other units.