Welcome to the Cold War! is the first book in a series inspired by the author's own exploits during the Cold War. Within this epic tome, dear reader in the future, you will learn what it was like being on the tip of the spear downrange at the edge of our empire's frontiers during the mid-to-late 1980s with a unit filled with drunken psychos serving God and country music. Back home, the good citizens of the United States were fighting over Beanie Babies. In the Far East, our heroes were facing the evil empire, led by splotch-top himself, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Premier of the Soviet Union with his combat-tested military aided by the potential success of their new free-market reforms. Within this tale, you will find a main character meeting and conquering all of the threats facing him: thirsty wenches wanting sex and marriage, the threat of nuclear war, the joy of whiskey drinking, a crushing work schedule, homesickness, winter softball, tobacco addiction, the yakuza, continual food poisoning from the chow hall, mediocre military leadership--and worse, all while preventing WWIII. Welcome to the Cold War indeed.