Special Operations Division Fulda HQ [SODFD]

The SODFD's target is getting the "Job" done, whatever it takes. No one is left behind, pain and suffering will be revenged! Semper Fi!
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The Fulda Gap is an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border (the former intra-German border), and Frankfurt am Main that contains two corridors of lowlands which tanks might have accessed in a surprise attack effort by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies to gain crossing(s) of the Rhine River. Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap was strategically important during the Cold War. The Fulda Gap is roughly the route Napoleon chose to withdraw his armies after defeat at the Battle of Leipzig. Napoleon succeeded in defeating a Bavarian-Austrian army under Wrede in the Battle of Hanau not far from Frankfurt; he safely escaped home to France. The route was also used by the U.S. XII Corps during World War II to advance eastward in late March and early April 1945.

During the Cold War (which included the June 1948 "official" start of the Berlin Blockade; the Cold War lasted until 1989) the Fulda Gap was one of two obvious routes for a hypothetical Soviet tank attack upon West Germany from Eastern Europe, especially East Germany; the other route was the North German Plain (a third, less likely, route was up through the Danube River valley in Austria). The concept of a major tank battle along the Fulda Gap was a predominant element of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) war planning during the Cold War, and weapons such as nuclear tube and missile artillery; the nuclear recoilless gun/tactical launcher Davy Crockett; Special Atomic Demolition Munitions; AH-64 Apache attack helicopter; and A-10 ground attack aircraft were developed with such an eventuality in mind.