Originally Posted by
Ninthace
In the days of the Cold War, we had a lot of “Tac Admin”. The air head of 1BR Corps (aka RAF Gütersloh) was held and defended by clerks, cooks, accountants etc. The ground defence of the Sqns and the RAF MOBs themselves was run by administrators. Couldn’t have been that bad, we tended to score highly in TacEval.
...although there was a TACEVAL at Lossie back in the day with OC Admin running the show over the night shift. He got wind that there were going to be lots of intruders over the first night so he ordered that turnround of aircraft was to cease and all personnel were to be used to guard them. Next morning, the intruders had not got through, although the Station was unable to fulfil its flying commitments for several hours! Crewroom gossip was of OC Admin being invited to the Stn Cdr's office to be reminded of the purpose of an airfield.