You will experience the brotherhood that is exclusively found in the Infantry which was only made stronger by the unique conditions in C 2/4 Infantry. For the first time, someone from inside 56th Field Artillery Command (Pershing) speaks out on exactly what it was like to serve in that command during the very momentous period at the end of the Cold War. This very readable adventure is both brutally honest and irreverently funny. He takes you to the site, to the field, and out on the town as he earns his way back to "the world". He shares with you the highs and lows of life in the boiler pot of a Pershing unit and in Heilbronn, Federal Republic of Germany. In this very personal memoir, the author carries the reader through his two year tour as a young Infantryman in Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment (Pershing). One company of Infantry stands between all of these enemies and live Pershing II nuclear missiles. The pressure is rising quickly in the Cold War. It appears nothing can solve this standoff except complete, nuclear annihilation or capitulation by one of the sides. Thousands of protestors are regularly picketing sites that house nuclear weapons. Leftist, terrorist groups such as West Germany's Red Army Faction (RAF) and France's Action Directe (AD) are threatening further attacks on western military installations.
They are also mired in a war of conquest in Afghanistan. The USSR is in turmoil over General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev, proposing a revolutionary policy of Glasnost or "openness" toward the west. President Ronald Reagan is proposing the Strategic Defense System, also known as "Star Wars", further raising the heat on the Soviets. The Soviet Union is outraged over a large number of Pershing missiles being kept in West Germany.
The Cold War is five years from its end bringing a close to a nearly fifty year standoff between the United States and the USSR. A memoir of the author's time as security for Pershing II nuclear missiles in cold war Germany.
Second Place Winner of the 2011 Reader Views Literary Award (History/Science).
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