SAT & BAF! Memories of a Tower Rat by Doug DePew

For possibly the first time, a person who was actually there relates the amazing bond forged in the towers of Waldheide Nuclear Weapons Storage Area. It was a life that, until now, had to be experienced to be fully understood. Tower rats were as flawed as they were marvelous. You will also experience the incomparable brotherhood of the Infantry which was only made stronger by the unique conditions in Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment (Pershing). You will feel the tremendous toll living in the boiler-pot of the Cold War in Western Europe took on the lives, bodies, hearts, and souls of the young men who volunteered to stand between the Bear and the Eagle. You will live the roller-coaster life that was 2/4 Infantry. The author pulls no punches he shares with you his mistakes and his achievements as he earns his way back to the world. You will be carried through the two year tour of one very young Infantryman as he arrives in Germany straight out of Infantry School and gradually navigates his way through the mind numbingly tedious and insanely active life of a tower rat. You will be taken to the field, inside the towers, and out on the town. In this brutally honest and irreverently funny account, one of the men who stood the perimeter describes what it was like. One company of infantry stands between the entire Soviet arsenal and live Pershing II nuclear missiles which are the threat used by President Ronald Reagan as he orders Mr.

It appears nothing can end this standoff except nuclear annihilation or capitulation by one of the antagonists. Thousands of protestors are surrounding nuclear storage sites and are becoming more aggressive each year. Leftist groups such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) of West Germany and Action Direct (AD) of France are threatening to attack NATO installations in the Federal Republic of Germany and throughout Europe as they have in the past. The USSR is also in the midst of a protracted war of conquest in Afghanistan. The arms race has ramped up to unbelievable proportions, and both sides are threatening action soon if deeply contentious issues are not resolved. The differences causing conflict are fundamental. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! President Ronald Reagan It is 1986, and the Soviet Union is five years from collapsing bringing an end to a nearly fifty year standoff with the United States.

SAT & BAF! Memories of a Tower Rat by Doug DePew