Either somebody with the exercise effed up (entirely possible) or they’re not being completely truthful. Also entirely possible...
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or... Tyler didn’t get the memo there was going to be an exercise and flipped out when the alarms sounded. Now attempting to cover for himself...
Can’t it be both?
“Either somebody with the exercise effed up (entirely possible) or they’re not being completely truthful. Also entirely possible...”
Agree however Ramstein has not had exercises like that since the Cold war.
South Korea still have exercises like that and you hear the message start out as Exercise Exercise then the message over Giant Voice then the sirens.
I will vote they are not being truthful, normally you would be in exercise mode already.
Years ago (late 90s), there was a system which would be used for events like this and nobody really understood the dataflow (probably half a dozen people max). There was normally 100-percent real-world events. Occasionally for an exercise somewhere in the theater, there would be this filter set up with a code that would read ‘EXERCISE’ and some fake missile launch. The code would normally be enough to know right off the bat that this was exercise.
You could go to the system...change the location or the timing, set the broadcast time, and everyone knew that the event would occur during some exercise.
This looks to me like some idiot didn’t warn folks this would be part of the exercise, and they weren’t trained to look at the identifier ‘Exercise’ or the code on the screen.
Bet is on not being truthful, ala Hawaii.
You should know. We had the 20th SOS “Green Hornet” helicopters plus O2 FAC’s in 68-69. I flew with several FAC’s. Major Anonsen became an O-6. He and I respected the other. He was extremely efficient in all his directions to the 20th.