The reason I got “23” correct is because I can no longer count to “24”! I start needing a nap about “21”, but can manage to get up to “23”, no more.
Thanks for your service!
BTW, how accurate was the scenario in Red Storm Rising? 43 years ago, I was the S-2 of my CH-53D squadron and taught Soviet aircraft identification, etc. (”Stay away from the ZSU-23, guys!), but little in the way of Soviet Offensive Operations. Other than “They’re coming through the Fulda Gap with a gazillion tanks, boys!”
55K tanks through the Fulda, I war gamed it in C&GS, I got from Fulda to Franfurt (FRG) with 80% of my command. I was the Russian Commander, the Ami’s were 3 West Point grads. Ya gotta be careful with those secondary roads, if they are wide enough for a tank. I was the sneaky Pete who flanked their main force which was waiting on the Autobahn. I coulda been a Hero of the Soviet Union. I have 3 nephews who graduated from west Point, I told them they should have gone to OCS like I did, if I could out flank them as a Signal Officer. BTW, I turned a war movie off last night that I was watching on You tube. It was called battle of the bulge. It wasn’t the Henry Fonda one, it was a newer one. When the jeep pulled off the road and the RO went to call the BN, he was cranking a EE-8 on the back of the jeep. That was enough for me to turn it off. He couldn’t raise anyone? Duuuuuh!! He had an RL 29 in the back. How does a EE-8 without another EE-8 and a Switchboard work with no wire contact? It was a EE-8 Radio? The old EE-8 was still around in the early 60’s but was replaced with a better model, the TA 312, but you still needed a wire for it to call Bn. LOL!!!. Hollywood, ya gotta love it.