RE: [GZG] Everyone's got a piece of the action

["Chris Downes-Ward" <c.downes-ward@xxxxxxxxx>]

At the start of WW2 doctrine was to rely on nearby Army units for airfield defence, the trouble was that there wasn't always a nearby unit and they kept getting borrowed for other things so the RAF Regiment was formed to provide airfield defence against ground and air attack.

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From: gzg-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gzg-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of JIM MORRISON
Sent: 02 September 2006 12:39
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Subject: Re: [GZG] Everyone's got a piece of the action

yup, basically they're there to defend airfields and forward deployments of the harrier and stuff like that.

 

Wasn't the RAF Regiment created for airfield security? I haven't bothered looking them up, but assuming that's the case, it seems like a specific reason rather than encroachment to me.

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