I served in the US military, alongside NATO allies during the Cold War, in Germany. By US standards that makes me a veteran, although personally I think you really need to have gotten shot at or shelled before you get to call yourself a veteran. For me that came later. During the Afghanistan War, I saw those NATO allies on the ground alongside US troops. Where I was it was IASF: Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Croats and Czechs; and less frequently Spaniards, Italians and Lithuanians. They didn’t