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I never realized before how different the Danish Navy was at the end of the Cold War from the Belgian Navy. So interesting! I suppose geography is everything. The Belgians' job was to keep the LOC between the US/UK and northwestern Europe open, while the job of the Danes (along with other NATO navies, of course) was to keep the Baltic Exit closed.

I never really got into the picture of naval operations in Europe. Even as a kid, I was hopelessly oriented towards Army operations. What the Navy was doing was interesting only to the degree that the Navy was supporting the Army. Of course, this is the defense of the FRG against a Red onslaught in a nutshell. Still, I seldom gave any thought to naval operations except, of course, for the trans-Atlantic convoys. It would have been interesting to be a squid stationed in the UK aboard a light combatant (frigate or smaller). The whole way of looking at the European battle space would have been very, very different than the way a grunt in the FRG would have.