Following on from INW copying Danny's post to this one, I have moved my comment here too:
Danny, as the Cold War evolved in to Flexible Response many idiocies were inflicted on the PBI. Hangar doors in UK were painted green. Hi Viz yellow bowers were painted green as were red fire engines and white ambulances. Then, as you couldn't see them, fluorescent yellow strips were attached. No one figured out that everything is GREEN on a bomber radar and jammers would have been more effective.
Everything had to have an alternate so that the chaos could continue when the taceval team took out the primary. Odd, but they never took out the alternate to see if the station could create another alternate. Extra brownie points if you managed to 'hide' the A team in the alternate thus only losing the B team.