Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Episode-Discussions-THE-RESPONSIBILITY-SEAT-tp1499810p1500136.html

Robert Thomas wrote:

> SHADOW must have some REALLY DEDICATED troops if they are willing
> to "Go underground" for such long peroids. Personally, I don't see
> it.

Why not? Nuclear submarine crews remain submerged in much more
claustrophobic conditions for weeks or months at a time.
Besides, Moonbase personnel must spend weeks away from home, too.

> Several of the shows showed that even the Techs had a social life
> outside of SHADO. You would have to tell an afwul lot of wives
> about what was going on, not to mention parents, land lords
> (Rentals) and god knows who else if you did this.

I'm under the impression that most of the SHADO personnel -
interceptor astronauts, SkyDiver crew, Moonbase personnel and so on
- do not have 'front' professional identities like Straker does,
rather their families and friends know that they work for a secret
part of the military without knowing anything about SHADO. So for
SHADO HQ personnel, spending weeks away from home might not be any
more suspicious than for SkyDiver crews.

James