In October 1973 I was serving in the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, when the Yom Kippur War started. Within days Israel needed vast quantities of military supplies in order to sustain its defense war efforts. Wikipedia info on Yom Kippur War events
Wright-Patterson AFB was one of a few primary staging area for this military airlift of munitions. A number of events during those days impressed on me how history was flowing around me, including Israeli commercial planes without seats, becoming cargo planes along with much of the U.S. airlift capabilities. Wikipedia info U.S. airlift called Operation Nickel Grass
This base also had a squadron of B-52s that became active, moving from Defcon 4 to 3, resuming military flights to the borders of the Soviet Union, and having 2 planes ready 24 hours a day ready to take off in minutes. Later gasoline lines occurred as OPEC punished the U.S for this support of Israel. DEFCON info at Wikipedia
Newspapers than reported U.S. public anger over this gasoline embargo, expressing desires to get our oil. Weeks later things quieted down both in the Middle East, and U.S. gasoline lines, but I came to realize then the possibility of a future U.S. war in the Persian Gulf due to our dependence on its shipping U.S.-the World, vast quantities of oil. My daily interest in news, especially from newspapers, now led me to read full articles about this regions current events.
Next posting CNN and outbreak of war on September 22, 1980 between Iraq and Iran. PJ
