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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5264013" data-attributes="member: 25619">Hmmm, my scariest moment in the Cold War was in 1989 or 1990, when I spent a year in Oxford.  I remember waking up to the rumble of low flying jets, then noticing military trucks driving down the main street, and anxiously going to check the radio for news as to whether "The Balloon went up" over the various end of the Warsaw Pact crises.I guess in the US, military exercises are less likely to be right over a city.I grew up only about 10 miles from West Point, so it wasn't unusual to see military aircraft, but never whole formations, and with a dozen camoflagued 2.5 ton trucks rolling around at the same time!</blockquote>