Potential Danger in Germany

We were stationed in South Germany, the north part of Germany, communism was still going, and Russia were still there rattling their sabers and what not so we were still the good guys on the other side keeping the bad guys away sort of thing. Other than standard everyday work and going out on field exercises it was pretty well the same. We used to go on manoeuvres and go right up along side the borders of the communist countries and what not, do field manoeuvres and come home, this kind of stuff. In Europe you had a considerable amount of armies floating about, the Germans had an army, the UN had a bunch of people over there and the Russians had all kinds of them on the other side and if it ever blew, it would be an awful mess awful fast, but that was the thing, that feeling that anything could happen at almost any time was there but you were busy doing your work. You wouldn’t have time to think about the politics. You don’t get involved with the politics anyway so you don’t really worry about the politics. You worry about your own stuff, make sure it’s running, where it belongs and up to scratch so if the troops have to use it or the fighting troops got to use it, it’s there and it’s ready and they can use it. You don’t have much time.