NBC and Air Raid Warning Signs - Help Please
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NBC and Air Raid Warning Signs - Help Please
Hi all. First I apologise that this is not directly aviation related but it is military as such.
Please could somebody describe the colour/shape/name of the lumps of metal we used to winch up like a flag, during Taceval, to warn people that the state was “Air Raid Warning Red”, “NBC Black”, “All Clear”, etc, etc.
The reason that I ask is that I cannot remember and in my current role I am dealing with two ex Army WOs and a bunch of NATO chaps that have never heard of what I am trying to describe.
I must admit I thought they were SOP across Army, RAF, Navy and NATO, especially in BFG during the good old Cold War days. Or, have I just gone mad and senile since I left
Thanks
Please could somebody describe the colour/shape/name of the lumps of metal we used to winch up like a flag, during Taceval, to warn people that the state was “Air Raid Warning Red”, “NBC Black”, “All Clear”, etc, etc.
The reason that I ask is that I cannot remember and in my current role I am dealing with two ex Army WOs and a bunch of NATO chaps that have never heard of what I am trying to describe.
I must admit I thought they were SOP across Army, RAF, Navy and NATO, especially in BFG during the good old Cold War days. Or, have I just gone mad and senile since I left
Thanks
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Ever heard of Google??
http://library.enlisted.info/field-m...3-4-1/APPA.PDF
It's a NATO STANAG, not sure if its up to date though
Ever heard of Google??
http://library.enlisted.info/field-m...3-4-1/APPA.PDF
It's a NATO STANAG, not sure if its up to date though
Last edited by Roland Pulfrew; 6th Feb 2013 at 11:47. Reason: Edited to change the link to one that works (I hope)!
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ORAC, many thanks for that. As it was I had seen that link after "Googling" (RP, plaese note
), but it did not contain the visual signs that I was thinking of.
However, Thank you Roland Pulfrew, that is exactly what I was after. Red square for Air Raids and black triangle for NBC Black.
Must admit I did not spot that link.
The Army and NATO chaps have still never heard of the use of this kind of thing. Maybe the visual signs were very apparent to us because of the sound of 13 tonkas leaving the Sqn on a mass launch
), but it did not contain the visual signs that I was thinking of.However, Thank you Roland Pulfrew, that is exactly what I was after. Red square for Air Raids and black triangle for NBC Black.
Must admit I did not spot that link.The Army and NATO chaps have still never heard of the use of this kind of thing. Maybe the visual signs were very apparent to us because of the sound of 13 tonkas leaving the Sqn on a mass launch
Part of the problem may be that the majority of 1(BR) Corps and its support elements would have been launched into the cuds long before escalation to armed action, leaving the fixed-base elements of RAFG sitting around absorbing much of the Warsaw Pact's ordnance. Hence the lack of a requirement to have anyone hoisting stuff up flagpoles.
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Well we had bikes like that on the Sqn, maybe I should have put it forward under the ideas and inventions scheme. It would have been a great job for some of the knackered old Chiefs we had
