In 1989, I was not a member of POW Camp Berlin. Not that it matters, but I was preparing for an assignment to SOUTHCOM J2 where planning was ongoing for a little live fire exercise called Operation Just Cause.. But, like many people outside POW Camp Berlin, I was also happy to find that the Wall was coming down and GSFG would soon be out of the former DDR. I suspect that REFORGER 89 went forward as it did because its planning had been going on for at least a year. For most units involved in REFORGER, the exercise was the capstone event of an annual training cycle. And not uncommonly in training exercises, enemy forces' worst case scenarios are used; exercises are usually designed to stress the system. BTW, this last point goes quite some way toward explaining the array of Russian forces across the border from the Ukraine.
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