"Look out there" Joe said, pointing to the woodline, "4,000 miles away people in America are going to their 9-5 job, people are sleeping, eating, doing whatever They have no idea about 2/4, the towers, they don't know what we do, they don't care, no one knows or cares." I don't know who else was in that relief, but I was the other of Doug's roommates there. Joe had a bitter outlook on his C 2/4 experience and always stated he didn't want to be one of those 'loser veterans' who wax nostalgic about their army time. SPC Joe Alvarez was short, it was his last tour. In the fall of 1987 Doug was in the towers with two of his first C 2/4 roomates. The book is a no holds, funny, irrevrent look at a young man coming-of-age, reminiscent of some of the great satirical war novels with the twist that it's all true! Anyone interested in modern military history or the cold war as well. You will live it."I think anyone who served in Europe would like this book, especially those who served during that era. For possibly the first time, a person who was actually there relates the amazing bond forged in the towers of Waldheide Nuclear Weapons Storage Area.
You will be carried through the two year tour of one very young Infantryman as he arrives in Germany straight out of Infantry School and gradually navigates his way through the mind numbingly tedious and insanely active life of a tower rat. You will be taken to the field, inside the towers, and out on the town. In this brutally honest and irreverently funny account, one of the men who stood the perimeter describes what it was like.
One company of infantry stands between the entire Soviet arsenal and live Pershing II nuclear missiles which are the threat used by President Ronald Reagan as he orders Mr. It appears nothing can end this standoff except nuclear annihilation or capitulation by one of the antagonists. The Soviet Union is five years from collapsing, and the arms race has ramped up to unbelievable proportions. Second Place Winner in the 2011 Reader Views Literary Awards (History/Science)
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