After the war's end, NMCB Four was decommissioned as part of the nations armed forces reduction.

Concern on this issue was seen as one reason for Soviet delaying on the "Open Skies" talks and at the conventional armed forces reduction talks in Vienna [see p. 37393].

As part of major armed forces reductions in 2000 the Lapland ranger regiment (I22) in Kiruna was disbanded, and its several trained and equipped battalion and company sized field units were deactivated.

After graduation from high school, Valentin Lebedev studied for a year (1960) at the Higher Air Force Navigators School in Orenburg, but he was discharged as a result of an armed forces reduction.

In the course of Yeltsin's visit the two sides signed 24 joint statements, documents and memorandums of understanding in areas including military and technical co-operation, space exploration, nuclear energy development, border security and armed forces reduction, trade and economic co-operation and educational and scientific exchanges.

Upon returning from Iraq in May 1991, both battalions of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the rest of Phantom Brigade received orders to deactivate and draw down from Aschaffenburg, Germany as part of the new armed forces reduction strategy at the end of the Cold War.