I sat in many Autobahn checkpoints in the mid 70’s as German police and military looked for Bader-Meinhoff and Red Brigades. Always at an exit with an overpass with crew served machine guns pointed both ways. They were not messing around.
My first month in 3rd AD in 1980, Baader-Meinhof tried to murder Gen. Kroesen (sp?), SACEUR, with an RPG attack on his convoy of identical brown Mercedes limos, staged at an over pass.
They hit one car in the trunk and the rocket failed to detonate I think, it wasn’t his car though.
We got regular command info at formations about not being easy targets, advice from old hands, like stick to the cat houses if you’re horny. Yu’re not irresistible and you might get murdered for your ID card and dog tags like some poor noobie was so the terrorists could get on base to plant a bomb.