[centurion316]

I was an infantry company commander in Germany. We had recently received the TOW missile system mounted on M113 armored vehicles. We loaded all of our missiles, our launchers, and our missile control boxes and delivered them to Ramstein Air Base. We weren’t told where they were going, but it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were going to Israel.

[bravo whiskey]

When I got to Germany in January 1975 my tanks were still painted in 3 color desert camo.

[daniel1212]

I was an infantry company commander in Germany. We had recently received the TOW missile system mounted on M113 armored vehicles. We loaded all of our missiles, our launchers, and our missile control boxes and delivered them to Ramstein Air Base. We weren’t told where they were going, but it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were going to Israel.

"it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were going to Israel." Is that a pun?:) Thank you for your service, and thank God for America's part in Israel's hour of need.

What I sees as especially of note is that "tankers were ferrying factory-fresh Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft flying non-stop from the factory in St. Louis, Missouri to Ben Gurion Airport."

That is what you call fast shipping.

Note that "The Stratotankers had left Pease AFB, New Hampshire, the night of Saturday, 13 October (one of the bases El Al was using to re-supply the war effort)

That has been reduced to a Air National Guard Base

[rlmorel]

A guy in my squadron told me that when we had been deployed on the JFK over in the Med at that time, they had panes take off loaded with ordinance that came back with nothing on the racks.

If true, I am good with that.