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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Wasn't the Jutland Division in XI US Corps, in northern Poland in 2000? That's roughly a quarter of the Danish Army.
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Rostock in Eastern Germany is ringing a bell with me. I think that might have been mentioned in Going Home, although there might be a discrepancy between where the player handout intel assesment said they were and where they actually are. It does definitely say somewhere that they end up repatriating themselves back to Danish territory at some point - it can only be Going Home or the NATO vehicle guide.
On the topic of evacuations, I'm fairly sure that from a British and US (and presumably Canadian?) perspective this would have kicked in when the reinforcements started heading across the English Channel / Atlantic respectively. I'm going from memory but I
think the reinforcements start arriving after the West Germans cross the IGB but before UK, US, and Canadian units get involved, so there's nearly two months for all military and embassy dependents to be evacuated. IMO that's more than enough time to get everyone out of the War zone and safely home.
With regard to non military dependents, e.g. tourists, business people, ex pats. etc, I'm not so sure. Would Governments evacuate them on the same transports that are taking military families home, or would they need to to make their own way, which could prove problematic? One would imagine most scheduled flights in and out of West Germany would most likely be cancelled (I can't see British Airways or United flying sked services in and out of Frankfurt in between air raids), so I could see lots of people ending up in France, Holland, and Belgium trying to get flights or ferries home...(for anyone who saw the news coverage of the ash cloud in Europe earlier this year, I think we could see similar scenes). Therefore I think it's possible some of these people might potentially still be in the War zone at the start of December.
Whilst non essential Embassy staff would probably be included in the dependent evacuation, essential staff would, presumably, have to stay until the fighting actually started and then take their chances (they may get some protection under the Vienna Convention?).