[Cold Heat]

Yes, I cannot speak to my experiences in 1980. I was married with children and had been out of the Army for 8 years.

The war in Vietnam was over in 1974.

The military pared down it's force requirements. And the manpower and equipment went with it. In fact my division was mothballed. The 3rd Armored.

The Cold War that you seem to be so worried about, was not even close to being as hot as it was in the 60s and early seventies.

When I was in country we went on full alert multiple times.

We deployed twice.

It was not a drill.

[ansel12]

I was in the 1973 alert, and you have no idea what you are talking about in that regard to the Cold War, you have no idea evidently that by 1979 some of us saw 1984/85 as the window that the Soviets had to make their move, thank God for Reagan, he did everything he could to erase that window of opportunity.

The tension in the early and mid 80s was intense, Reagan destroyed that window that had been so predictable in the late 1970s, and the Soviets knew it, it wasn’t long before they went a different route that ended in their destruction.

The MI people can attest to that 1984 fear, you don’t know how hot things were.