Originally Posted by
air pig
Was at this time an alarm sounded and BAOR went on alert, war stocks issued and people and equipment taken to places they'd never seen before to positions ready prepared they never knew were there?
Easy to say in hindsight, but if that's really what happened, it would have been a spectacularly unwise way to have run an exercise that was supporting a nuclear forces CPX!
Hopefully you are thinking of another occasion?!