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Originally Posted by fightingflamingo
I believe the UK has/had a similiar provision for bringing civil airliners into government service had the balloon ever gone up.
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It's called the Queen's Order in the UK and can appy to civil aircraft and ships. I think it was last used during the Falklands when a large number of civilian ships formed part of the Task Force (including the luxury liner QE2).
Personally, I think that once British and US reinforcements start arriving in West Germany in October 1996 that would trigger the evacuation of military dependents as a matter of high priority. Quite apart from anything else I'd expect that it would be a major morale boost for the troops based in Germany to know that their families were (relatively speaking) out of danger.