{"id":19855,"date":"2010-07-24T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19855"},"modified":"2010-07-24T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:56:49","slug":"patrolling-the-east-german-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19855","title":{"rendered":"Patrolling the East German Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found some of my old pictures from patrolling the East German border back in the mid-80s when I had to dig out an old citation to help a politician verify his own medal from the Gulf War. Luckily for him, we both had been in the same division and had been awarded the same medal back then.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I did a photo essay last year<\/a> and told one of my stories, it got some measure of interest, so I thought I’d do it again;
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\nThis is the East German border marker;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

Feeding the guard dogs.<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

Two guards on motorcycle patrol;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

Some watch towers weren’t all that high-tech;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a> <\/p>\n

An East German LT;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

A Trabant parked out in the middle of no where isn’t suspicious at all;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

That couldn’t be a border guard hiding in the weeds between that Trabant and the telephone line on the pole could it? Worst hider ever;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

Well besides these guys;<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

There are more pictures at my Flickr Photo Set<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And, oh, I also found the citation that verifies the story I told in the previous post about the border. <\/p>\n

\"img038\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Army Achievement Medal was new in those days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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