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After leaving active duty at Fort Benning I was in the active US Army Reserve in South Florida before and during the Cuban Missle Crisis.
We were all ordered to have our equipment and duffle bags packed and ready in the trunk of our vehicles and were on alert for notice to us at work to report to board aircraft in Fort Lauderdale for Cuba.
Kennedy called off the alert.
This never made it to the media.
There were very few in our company that were experienced and proficient in combat action.
Our egotistical idiot company commander had lost half of his men in Korea - He ordered his company to split in half and take a different route.
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The fear at the time was the cities within range of the missiles would have to be evacuated, and the only place for people to go on a temporary basis, would be the small towns around the cities.
In fact they even intended to use our property as one of the refugee camps.
The mass panic and shear number of people involved would have overwhelmed the govt. ability to take care of people.
That's what the Russians were after, the nut Castro actually wanted to fire the missiles which would have resulted in a nuke response from the US.
I believe the idea of creating mass panic causing the people in cities into a mass exodus is what the left has in mind with orchestrated race riots in every major city along with terrorists attacks with IED’s, possibly even some type of dirty bomb.
People can kid themselves all they want.
American troops will do what is necessary to restore order.
Sounds like GAC reincarnated.