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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
I recall reading or hearing something that one of the more surprising things gathered from the two phone taps we put - one on the sea of Ohktosh's trunk line (that one was compromised by the Walkers) and one in the Arctic that was never discovered - was that as cavalier as they might have seemed the Russians were concerned that with a revitalized military and a hawkish president (Reagan) that NATO was on the verge of launching an attack and as a result they (the Soviets) moved their ballistic missile fleet under the northern ice pack.
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Yup! Ole Ron sure kept the Soviets guessing as to just what the Americans were up to. His eight years were perhaps the closest that either side ever came to pushing the button since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And being on border patrol duty during most of this time, I can testify to just how hairy things were. Nothing like sitting in your jeep, watching a Mi-24 Hind do a slow flyby, just so you could see that the rockets and missiles on the racks were war-shots.
Of course that's when one of us would pull out a copy of the latest Playboy and show off the centerfold! Always good for a round of applause from the Soviets!