True story.
280SU Cyprus (radar station at the top of Mount Olympus) in 1976, two years after the Turkish invasion. Things have, supposedly, settled down.
Station commander decides the time has come when we can start practicing for alerts, exercises etc and decides to have a call out.
A few nights later the siren goes off in the middle of the night and everyone scrambles into clothes and heads to MT yard and then into Landrovers and 4-toners to head off to the operations site at the peak.
Everything grinds to a halt at the main gate where the road is packed with all the inhabitants of Troodos and Platres villages who think the Turks are coming for the rest of the island and have stampeded to the site seeking sanctuary…
We never held another call out or exercise after that…..