"Cold War Stories, Connections" Topic

This is the second eulogy for a Cold War Warrior I have written. I pray I don't have to do it again.

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The more we get into the 21st century, the more is revealed from the 20th. Keep digging. And I thank your father for his service.
I'd like to hear from other nationalities about their Cold War perspective…then, maybe this shouldn't be pressed…?

It's always fun getting the old Cold Warriors together, especially when they start sharing 'sea stories'. It's even more fun when some of them were on opposing sides, sometimes you find it's a very small world indeed.

I would suspect that PH is going to find a very short service record, though. Lots of things that are supposed to be in there get 'lost' by the secret squirrels…

Reading the story I've recalled my schooldays. In Soviet Union you had "safety courses" and "initial military training" courses in senior grades.
Our teacher was a retired captain of the 2d rank ( i.e.leutenant-colonel if he was serving on land) and he was a great guy. He was following tradition of real sea officers sailing under St.Andrew's flag with unorthodox thinking. Having signed various secrecy agreements he very rarely talked about his service apart of the fact, that he was an officer on nuclear sub. On my last year at school, we had a lecture about mysteries of Bermudas triangle, and we were surprised to see our teacher on this lection.
He was silent for the whole time of the lecture, then he stood up and said: "Reporting: was in this region for 6 years in a row, spent months there and saw nothing of this nonsence"
The result was a very red lecturer and laughing class ;)

heh.

Even the stuff we can talk about is good for a laugh sometimes!