Thanks, Dennis. It is a small world.

The Pershing was a 'tactical nuclear missile' (as if a nuclear explosion could be tactical.)

Following graduation from Missile & Munition School in the Pershing training, you could either go to Ft. Sill OK or to Germany. And in Germany, you could be at the Depot (579th ORD Co.) or in the field.

The Pershing was a mobile missile with a tracked carrier plus the launch station in a separate vehicle. Bruce was apparently in the field most of the time, moving from one possible launch site to another during the cold war. I was fortunate to be situation in one place, living in a barracks instead of the field.

Pershing Missiles were destroyed as part of the Strategic Arms Treaty with Russia in the late 80's or early 90's I believe.