Ah yes, the Romanians - we were as well protected as the Romanians!
Whatever the shennanigans about the Global Threat Matrix, everyone agreed with our assessment that night ops were the only way ahead.
Although night ops were not without their problems - white-light approaches to BAG/KAB were quite exciting if you didn't have gogs! Nonetheless, these approaches prevented 'the locals' from targeting us too easily but the 'ground-launched meteorites' came far too close on a number of occasions for some people to question what we were doing.
As far as we were concerned, daylight ops would have been suicide BUT a number of detcos had to fight off the hierarchical orders to fly in daylight - just ask them.