Originally Posted by
Clockwork Mouse
The Army could do it but why would they? The Army's job is to manoeuvre aggressively on the battlefield, close with the enemy and kill him. The RAF Regt is a reactive guard force. A bloody good one but a guard force.
Wiki ... "and in depth defence of airfields by way of
aggressive patrolling a large area of operations outside airfields in hostile environments." Not quite so 'reactive', it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Regiment