2P, the most entertaining exercise was a crash/disaster exercise held one week day evening. There was no crash but the other part was exercised to the fullest extreme.
1. The exercise was pre-notified.
2. There was no ban on personnel going home or out.
3. Station Execs were either Distaff or principals.
When the balloon went down (like lead):
1. Anyone that was not a pre-notified player was down the pub.
2. There were no non-playing execs not at the scene.
3. When personnel eventually reacted to the callout they sat in crew rooms drinking coffee in the absence of any exec over the rank of cpl.
I was SDO in the WOC and changed my opinion of medical branch officers as the wg cdr S Dent O was be far the most effective GDOC Cdr I had seen.