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A Look At Officer Training In The US Navy and Merchant Marine
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:46:49 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:07:48 -0400, John H wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:01:29 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:14:04 -0400, John H wrote: If you had decent qualifications they could have sent you to Germany to defend us from the godless communists like my computer literate friend from Maryland. With the qualifications you had, you could have sat in the Stars and Stripes office in Saigon with Al Gore for a few months and gone back home. The reality is, most people in the military in the 60s never saw combat or even got close. Or me. My first and last overseas tours were in Germany, working on plans to defend us from the Godless communists! Saddam took our attention away from the Fulda Gap for a while. I wonder if the forces over there still plan for an 'active defense' in the Fulda Gap. I think the fall of the Soviets and the, loss for Russia, of all of those countries between Western Europe and Russia widened the border a bit and made that surprise attack a little less "surprising". When Hitler went the other way, he had to take Poland and Czechoslovakia first. I do understand why Putin gets nervous when we talk about putting them into NATO tho. The last time the Russians saw that kind of buildup on their western border, Barbarosa came next. It wouldn't have been a big surprise. We knew what was there in terms of divisions and armies. A hell of a lot of them! But the Soviets could stage right across the West German border (and they did) making the Fulda Gap significant. Now the front would be 100 miles from there along the border of Poland, Hungary or Ukraine. I do think we may have outgrown European ground wars tho. Agreed, hopefully. Although possession is still 9/10th's of the law, eh? |
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