TACEVAL stories
During the Cold War a solid air defence backed by a superior QRA was the universal holy grail for the RAF; closely followed by a good TACEVAL result.
TACEVAL was a serious business, run by ultimately powerful guys up at Group HQ, but a lot of funny, outrageous and just plain weird stuff happened during TACEVALs; both pre and post the HAS era.
I was in a hangar (pre-HAS) when the hangar was reported (exercise only) to have taken 2 mortar round hits. The IRT were informed and the station emergency response (including medics) swung into action.
A Cpl medic knelt down next to one of the"casualties", pinched his ear lobe and said "can you hear me". Casualty (overacting) groaned and tried to sit up, medic leant over to restrain him.
Medics heavy steel helmet (before we had plastic ones)fell off his head as it was going down and collided with casualty's head as it was coming up.
Resulted in a proper (NODUFF) concussion. NODUFF ambulance summoned and (now real) casualty whisked off to nearest NHS A&E dept.
His treatment was confused, at first, because the A&E found a piece of paper in his hand which said " broken leg and multiple contusions".
Happily he was back at work within a fortnight.
Any TACEVAL stories welcome.
Rgds SOS
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