Slight technical point: Warriors don't come into service until 1988. And I'm pretty sure that providing one's own sword is frowned upon, even for officers.

[quote=Dutchbag]Your shoulder board is one of the Border Guard. Was that intentional?
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Going to call accidental because that's the board that Wikipedia has in its [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Army#Rank_insignia]Nationale Volksarmee[/url] rank breakdown.