I was a young Captain (pilot) in the Strategic Air Command at that time.......so I know exactly what you went through. Not fun times.
The critical factor in each of the events that I am personally aware of as an intelligence type between the end of Vietnam for me and 1985 was the Soviet civilian government cooling down the "let's go to war" rants of the East Germans. The Kremlin knew that the Chinese would exploit any disruption of the delicate balance that existed in central Europe and that the Soviet economy and forces would be squeezed from both west and east.
Thank you for your service.