Guarding with a pick-axe handle
I did that once when I was ground based. Thought it daft so attached a white cardboard cutout Armalite to the side of it and got rodded out bigstyle in the TACEVAL debrief for not taking the exercise seriously.
I heard a rumour that when the mass evac was practised, an elderly German topped herself rather then "Go through it all again", hence it was not done again.
Anyone remember the RAF plod guarding the autobahn access when the hooters went off, to stop folks on leave doing a runner?
My cold war days were spent delivering Milan rather then sunshine, we would have got dicked in the end (through numbers) but put up a bl00dy good fight until then.
Happy days in a freezing barn up to your eyeballs in sh1te, with a Puma or 2 parked inthe orchard.