When I was with the 101st Airborne, we used to go on this alert status gig each month called DRB/DRF. Technically, you weren't supposed to leave the company area, but if you did, you had to sign out and be back within an hour. But we'd leave and call the CQ and check every hour to see if the SHTF. There was a local shopping mall that soldiers all went to. We went to the information desk and said, "Hey, we need your help. One of our soldiers is here and our unit just activated on alert. Can you page him? Here's what you need to page." And we handed the clerk a piece of paper that said "Private Partz, please report to your unit's Rapid Insertion Team for Operation Blueballs." The clerk didn't even bat an eye since soldiers paged for other soldiers before. It went right over the loudspeakers at the mall three times. People were laughing and saying, "Sounds like the army! It probably is for real and not a joke!"