Sounds like it was an opportunity to practice prison camping 101 on anyone available...
So if there ever is another disaster do not let anyone see you. Yikes!
Better yet just wait for them to show up and then confiscate their weapons and uniforms and handcuff them and duct tape'em and drop them off at a nearby camp.

No one will believe them when they try to tell everyone who they are they'll just get put in solitary.