One difference between the Ukraine fight and our situation in Berlin is that the Soviet Union didn’t need to invade because they had already done that in 1945. That’s a reason for the frequency of alerts — it would not have taken much time to get something started.
On move-out alerts we were clocked by the opposition. In October or November 1969, a middle-aged woman sitting in this car a few streets west of Andrews Barracks was there for over two hours as our units moved out. A well-run move-out sent a message to the Warsaw Pact countries that a surprise operation might not work.
-- rwr