No.

I once wrote elsewhere that I was forced into army service and screwed up one thing after another until they threw me out. It wasn't possible to resign so easily.

After that I was "burnt" for the GDR - I wouldn't have found work because they didn't hire anyone who had been dishonourably discharged. After the " turnaround" I was just as unacceptable. Precisely BECAUSE I had the army background.

I wouldn't have got along in one system and I had just as much trouble in the other one.