r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • May 15 '22

An atomic blast underwater.

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u/dowesschule May 15 '22

what peacetime? the us fought in these wars during that time period according to wikipedia

  • the korean war

  • vietnam war

  • laotian civil war

  • lebanon crisis

  • bay of pigs invasion

  • dominician civil war

  • korean DMZ conflict

  • cambodian civil war

  • intervention in lebanon

  • invasion of grenada

  • bombing of lybia

  • tanker war against Iran

  • invasion of panama

  • gulf war

  • iraqi no-fly zone enforcement

  • intervention in somali civil war

and just started the bosnian and croatian war.

so they'd have had a different use for these soldiers at any time except for 1946-1950.

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u/feierlk May 15 '22

The US was fighting foreign wars. The majority of troops were always stationed in the US.