we were on a 10 day exercise at SENTA - about half firing the 105's and half infantry work, i was on the gun line doing nothing and one of the blokes had Radio 1 on. we heard a newsflash and told the OC - he rang range control, HQ29 and HQ160 for instructions, of which there were none. we ceased our ex and went to stand-to for a couple of hours.
the OC and BSM legged it down to Sennybridge, they saw the pictures on the tv down there and when they came back they were grey. BSM reckoned the US was going to go nuclear, OC held the same view.
that week we fired about 8 times as much 105 ammunition as we'd planned to, and untold quantities of 5.56...