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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Worst Place You've Ever Spent the Night? [View all]erlewyne
(1,115 posts)The Grunewald is a park around Berlin Germany and I was
training in the infantry ... a 'cruit. Me and pvt. Marsh (a
hippie from L.A.) were guarding a tree (just to give us
something to do). It was not that cold, about 50F and my sleeping
bag was zipped all the way as I lounged against that tree.
Marsh was sleeping. If our squad leader sneaked past us
we would get K.P. so we were alert. We were warned about
the ferocious pigs and were showed pictures taken from up
that tree with the boars below. Well I encountered the some pigs
and I was stuck in the bag with my rifle (I had blank ammo)
next to me. I yelled at Marsh and he grabbed his rifle and shooed
the pigs away. We were scared (It was dark).
We later learned the joke was on us. The pigs were tame
and owned by the zoo and left to roam the park at night. They
were well fed and always returned to their pens.
Me and Marsh were trained for Nam and were sent to Germany.
The next year (1968) was the deadliest year of the war and we
did our duty in Berlin.