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I made and lost many good friends in the Army. I miss them all to this day. Time and distance have separated us. But, that does not take away from the great times, the hard times, the bad times. But, I sure as hell would not swap it for anything on this earth.

Thanks for your service, RA.

Great post...your words ring true. I still think back to my tour in the Army (76-84) and mostly remember the good times. The guys that I served with did some amazing things during the Carter years. After seeing what we had to work with in terms of materiel, ammo, and Presidential leadership, I still wonder why (other than MAD) the Soviets didn't try to cross the Fulda Gap.

No disrespect intended to my fellow soldiers and airmen. They would have performed well, but we just didn't have the numbers to sustain a battle for more than two weeks.

I guess it falls back on MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), and maybe all of those Soviet divisions weren't as combat ready as feared.

I concur. We would have been dead meat. I spent my first tour in Germany on the East-West border. I asked my platoon sergeant one time how they expected us to stop the Reds. He said we were simply a speed bump that had to pick up the phone and yell "here they come" before we donated to the cause. I asked him, then why don't they come, what stops them? He said one work, "nukes." I knew exactly then what he was saying. Our nukes evened it up. They had man numbers, equipment, tanks, etc. We had the equalizer, our nukes.