5. Arnold Had a Need for Speed – Racing Tanks in the Austrian Army
Arnold was a tank driver in the Austrian Army and one day he decided to race another tank down a steep hill. Only problem was there were still guys riding on top of his tank. “The rest of the guys in my tank were going nuts. I heard someone shouting at me to stop, but I thought it was just the other tank driver trying to get the advantage. When i got to the bottom of the ridge, I stopped and looked back for the M60.That was when I noticed a soldier clinging to our turret as if his life depended on it.”
Whoops. As punishment they made him park his tank in deep mud, crawl under it, inside, out the emergency hatch in the hull and back out. He did it 50 times.
When Arnold received his discharge it was not without some relief on the part of the Austrian army officers. Arnold had previously smashed through a garage wall after putting his tank in reverse instead of drive.
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