Beagle,
On the eve of GW2 due to the attempted "decapitation strikes" Saddam lobbed a whole load of Scuds into northern Kuwait. We were in our laager with our helicopters waiting to conduct an assault that night when the NAIDs and CAMs went off, shortly followed by a "confirmation" of "nerve agent". A couple of very nervous hours passed before someone announced, in a muffled voice, that they "thought" it was a false alarm due to some off-gassing from a Scud that had been, probably, aimed at us but went long by a couple of miles. Next step was a sniff test. "Could we have two volunteers?" Errr, no. Reminiscent of the scene from The Fast Show when the officer tries to get two chaps to charge a machine gun nest....eventually two "canaries" were found.....rather them than me!
Ex-matelot, on the run up to GW2 we were on Ark and we conducted a serious amount of CBRN work-up, including AR5 NVG deck landings and low level Tac Formation, gunnery and dust landings. For once, we as Crabs actually felt quite military as our knowledge/capability was far in excess of the ship's crew. They just assumed "pre-wet" and "citadel" would solve all their problems.....