Originally Posted by
newt
Don’t offend the guys who did their bit so you can order takeaways and criticise a world they have never experienced!
No, you did the job of every standing military in peacetime, to train for war and act as a deterrent. No different to the men and women in Estonia and Romania now. I did a Laarbruch tour during the Cold war, we often used to discuss how long we'd last come the day they rolled over the IGB, hours probably. But it never happened, we shouldn't give out medals for being ready just in case. As I'm still serving, I'd be seriously embarrassed to wear a CW medal alongside my real operational gongs and would expect to be mercilessly mocked by anyone who joined up post C1990.