Real-life question for those who were in

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Perhaps pertinent to the "Red Bear Rising" thread...

A buddy of mine was in from the early to mid 80's, groundpounder. Anyway, before our biweekly AD&D game he and I were chewing the fat and I asked him how at the time the general morale was, and what the general feeling was about NATO's prospects if a non-nuclear shooting war had started. His response was (essentially) that at the time, he and his fellow soldiers felt it'd be bad, but ultimately a big win for NATO (again, assuming no nukes fly), but that looking back with what we know now about how bad the damage the Walkers and others had done, yeah, it'd have been more like Dunkirk all over again: trade space for time and when you get to the channel, jump.

Anyone else want to share?