Tensions skyrocketed after World War II as two Superpowers, the USA and USSR, no longer had a common enemy. The following period, known as the Cold War, spanned between the Yalta Conference in February 1945 to the end of Communism in December 1991. Despite the fact that no direct clashes occurred, both superpowers faced off ideologically in indirect skirmishes around the globe. On the American side, the country instituted a new policy regarding foreign affairs which found themselves in numerous third world conflicts that aggravated the American populace; all this was in addition to their intense race to be more prepared than the USSR for a war. When Specialist Robert Leroy Bailey enlisted in the US Army in 1965, he experienced the United States efforts to juggle the growing unrest back home, military operations in third world countries, and possible war with the USSR.…