occupation for a short period of time is still occupation it need not be permanent status of british forces in germany changed over time but initially it was occupation forces and this fact should be reflected by the suitable category british military forces were stationed in germany from while west germany joined nato only in this is whole lot of time and british forces in british occupation zone were not within american french or soviet command structure they only had liaison missions with allies as you may notice i'm not doing any reverts in falklands war article which is really somewhat controversial