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Old 01-21-2024, 08:54 AM
LoneCollector1987 LoneCollector1987 is offline
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I remember that the old base of the FKG 2 in Geilenkirchen-Niederheid had in the basement of the buildings some sort of separate rooms with NBC doors.
If the base would have been hit, they would have offered nearly no protection but as much as I remember the FKG 2 should have been deployed by the time the missiles were flying.

Personally I only saw such a room on my first days on the base and I was of 2. Squadron and we were in the old buildings, so I assume that all the old buildings had such rooms.

If you go to Google Earth then look for the Canadian Forces Medical Center. To the left you see four long buildings at a curved street. These were the new buildings, where the 3rd and 4th Squadron were stationed. If they had such rooms with those doors, I dont know.
If you look to the right of the Terry Fox Halle you find two long buildings. These were the buildings (old ones). In them were (the top one) the Staff Squadron of the Mission Group (the 4 Squadrons of this Group had the missiles) and (below) the Staff Squadron of the Support Group (they were resonsible for Supply and reserve manpower and other things).

The FKG 2 also had a QRA site and even though I visited that site I saw only a small part of the inside of the german building.
The mess building and the US building I just saw from the outside.
There is no Wikipedia site about it but if you enter "QRA Arsbeck" in Google Earth and go back to 12/2005 then you can find it. The long building on the left is the German building, the middle one is the Mess and the right is the US building.

Now for the higher up:

In West Germany we had the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govern...unker_(Germany)
If you switch to the german site they even have geo-coordinates and more pictures.

East Germany had two sites:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Komplex_5000 (german only)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnekop_Nuclear_Bunker
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