I was commanding a troop of about 32 men on United Nations duties in Nicosia, Cyprus. The U.S. embassy was not far from my part of the Green Line, and we had to know routes to and from, as well as where its diplomats lived. Cyprus was low-risk for any violations of the Vienna Convention such as happened in Tehran, but we had to be ready to evacutate the diplomatic corps in the event the cease-fire fell apart. After the story of the exfiltration of the six U.S. diplomats by Ken Taylor et al. broke in the press, the U.S. military attaché had a barbecue to mark the occasion. He said in jest that it was not in gratitude for what had just gone down in Iran, he just wanted to make damn sure we all knew where he lived in case anything happened on Cyprus.