Originally Posted by
NutLoose
......................Didn't they actually try that out at Gut on one exercise and the local German population panicked and started to follow them?
Yes, happened in the early 70s and caused a bit of a stir!! After that, practice evacuations did not involve the off-station MQs and the "evacuation" consisted of a few wagons doing a quick circuit of the countryside via Marienfeld, Niehorst and Blankenhagen. I was a lowly SAC at the time and the word was there were a few interviews without coffee down at The Big House after the dust had settled.