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1/19: Today's #AASaturdayStory begins with President Truman and the Cold War. Amidst a national frenzy of the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, Truman kept the 82nd out of Korea as a strategic reserve. In the event of war with USSR, the 82nd could jump in. 
2/19: Truman (& Ike) were more afraid of the Russians than the Chinese. The (now declassified) war plans called for us to jump into either Finland, Norway, or Sweden & move across potentially nuclear-devastated battlefields to the Soviet Union.
3/19: The most likely scenario was a winter war in Europe. To prepare for this, in winter of 1952, we trained in the Adirondacks, jumping in freezing conditions, in snow w/ cold weather boots on, cold weather jackets on, snow shoes carried.
