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Several weeks after I coordinated the draft plan, my supervisor at
Nousseur sent the final version to Hqs SAC. They replied that it was the
best that could be expected under the circumstances. Not long afterward,
I transferred back to the States where I got a job at McClellan AFB near
Sacramento.
The plan was one of several that I drafted while at Nouasseur and at
other places in those early days of the Cold War. Many personal
anecdotes, from the deeply sad and poignant to the trivial and absurd,
have been written about WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, and the other
confrontations between the U S and the Soviets. The Cold War, in as
many of its facets as possible, needs to be written about, including
memoirs such as this, and they should be entered into the nation's lore so
that students may view their many perspectives.
I spent almost two years in researching and drafting the details of this
SAC support plan. Would it have worked if and when the need arose?
Were there plans for other options? I don't know. Forward area
emergency maintenance (Rapid Area Maintenance - RAM) teams, much
more advanced in concept and application, were used in Viet Nam.
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