Oh yes there was...
...although the active mission was very short, the build up and the run down went on for quite a while; and there were a few chaps who as the old Highland phrase has it "got their feet under the kitchen table". I was into amateur radio building then and we watched in anguish as the staff drove a bulldozer over a large pile of components, ground them into the dirt and then burned them. They would have kept us in bits for a lifetime of kit.
In the rock'n roll of the time - yes "there was a whole lot of sha&^ng goin' on"
The Ancient mariner