The saying, that goes that "If a soldier slaps you, that is when you'd know that the police is your friend", is very valid. Infact, I need to buy whoever brought about that saying, a bottle of his favourite drink and a plate of pepper soup.
When I was very much younger, I happened to be a victim of a soldier's slap. It was sometime around 1999, if my 'memory card' has not gone bad, then I was a pupil of a military primary school, Depot National Academy, Zaria, Kaduna State.
On this fateful day, My younger brother and I went to school late, although we used to be regular latecomers, the soldiers in charge of latecomers made fire in a big pit and asked us and other latecomers to pick refuse around the school and throw into the fire. As I dropped my handful of refuse, then came a troubled wind, at 55°N, blowing from East to West at a velocity of 70M/S, (don't bother yourself with physics behind the wind), that blew off the refuse from the direction of the pit... GBOOOOOOOA!!! was what followed immediately, I guessed everybody around thought it was one of the explosives at the barracks, it was actually a resounding slap at the back of my neck from one of the soldiers. The slap thrusted me forward, if not for the good 'brake pads' of my rubber sandals, I would have fallen into the pit of fire. Then I raised my head and I saw everything around had gone frozen including the soldier that slapped me, even the birds flying in the sky ceased to flap their wings. For the rest of that day, it was if the man kept hitting me repeatedly. I couldn't get anything straight. As my teacher wrote on the chalkboard, all I could see was the Chinese symbols.
I know for sure that if he had used that magnitude of slap, he used on me, on a knocked internal combustion engine, it would send some power to the spark plug which would in turn cause the upward and downward strokes of the pistons and thereby, turning the crankshaft (in short, the engine would come back to life). I can not put words together enough to emphasize the Military slap.

hehehehe....
Funny experience...

I was never a victim and will never be...

I'm sure any soldier that'll choose try that on me will see my generous side.

I'll give not just an equal quality bt a greater one well propelled ,
arranged, shaken and running over.