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Old 4th Jun 2020, 07:50
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Easy Street
 
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As MATZ are only operative when the associated airfield is open (AIP 2.2 2.1.6) I think we can safely drop it from the list of transgressions.

It’s striking that all USAF airfields in the UK benefit from the enhanced protection offered by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, which makes trespass a criminal offence. I suspect the US insist on being able to enforce an appropriate level of security; the only RAF airfield to be so protected is Brize. Frankly I’m amazed that Marham and Waddington aren’t on the list given the nature of the hardware operated there. It serves to highlight just how weak the legal remedies are to something like the incident under discussion here.
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