With the German WWII Army NCO's, when they started training to help build the new German Army, They were incredible soldiers and fine gentlemen, to the best of my knowledge that was the first time in history that there were ever American and German soldiers headquartered on the same post. Those guys were the nicest people you would ever want to meet but they did cheat a little at table tennis, they used paddles with 3/4 inches of foam on one side, you could hammer the ball to them and they would catch it like with a catcher mitt.