Originally Posted by
Paying Guest
Ahh! The taceval scenario. I'd forgotten how amusing it was watching familiar faces from the TV doing their best in NBC kit. For some reason the tannoy always seemed to burst out with "red, red, red, air raid red" right in the middle of met brief!
I remember the German tacevals In the late 1960’s. We used to do four or five days running between Gutersloh and Belfast in a Britannia, replacing troops who were trying to keep the peace. We felt very superior, excused from the taceval and staying down town in an Hotel in Bielefeld.