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Old 08-24-2016, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b View Post
SGM Vallente GA Mills, a long-time veteran of Special Forces and a veteran of SFDB, told me that the SFDB's job if the balloon goes up was to exfiltrate out of Berlin (they had many routes in that respect) and to split into two sections. One section would begin to raise a partisan movement in East Germany, the other to begin to destroy communications hubs, dams, government and military buildings, and conduct harassing attacks against Warsaw Pact forces.
Gordon L Rottman to this as he was tasked with it. Apparantly the hardest part was getting out of West Berlin.

Also of note is the fact that Berliners were not subject to conscription as West Berlin was demilitarised.
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