I would be happy to pay for my LS&GC to avoid costing HMG anything. But the parsimonious retrospective criteria for that suggests that a Cold War (ie: served during that time-frame) would be ludicrously expensive in production and administrative terms.
BTW, my Cold War was pretty painless. Loads of exercises and Tacevals at Waddington, and visiting DISTAFF for 11 Gp exercises. Hardly risky or rigorous ... just life in the RAF, really.