Commentary I spent 33 years in the uniform of the U.S. military. I remember my first duty weekend with the Washington State Army National Guard at Camp Murray like it was yesterday. The old F-101 Voodoo interceptor of the Washington Air Guard is still there. In 1983, the Reagan build-up was just beginning to take hold. We were on a mission. America was good; the Soviet Union was bad. Carter was weakness, doubt, and self-loathing. Reagan was strength, confidence, and optimistic action. Vietnam was in the rearview mirror, the good days were back, and “Wild Bill” Casey was in charge at the CIA to unleash mayhem on the communists. President Ronald Reagan ignored his advisers and winged it, with his “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” speech, and the rest is history. I had no idea what National Security Decision Directive 75 (NSDD-75) was at the time, but I was …