Originally Posted by
ex82watcher
I was a civilian controller at Eastern Radar at RAF Watton,and was very surprised when I arrived at work that day to find that a significant number of the RAF controllers were wearing gun-belts and automatic pistols,and some of the airmen toting Sterling machine guns around the ops room.I don't remember seeing the F111s leaving Lakenheath,but wouldn't have been looking in that area.
SLRs. Don't ever recall being trained on SMGs. Can you imagine the Air Traffikkers at Eastern with fully automatic weapons? Scary!!