Though I don’t see any relevance, I wasn’t in the military.
It was your choice to call yourself Colonel, if you had served under Reagan, you might have remembered how incredibly aggressive he was in confronting the Communists all over the world, and his massive military buildup and aggressive military exercises, and operations and clandestine/mercenary operations globally.
It was pretty exciting serving under Reagan, scary, tense, but exciting, it was also pretty deadly since we averaged over 2200 military dead a year under Reagan, for a total of almost 18,000.