Originally Posted by
stevef
I don't recall any RAF Regiment airmen doing a turn on gate guard at a certain Wiltshire unit in the seventies. So much for airfield defence specialists...
(Flippant comment before the assault starts.)
At Ulster Radar in the mid 70s the Regiment provided one gunner to man the tower covering the Ops site at Killard Point during the day. An RAF policeman and one other airman manned the gate, all were armed.
At night, the Regiment gunner was withdrawn, a police dog handler and his pooch were assigned to patrol the site and a handful of airmen in the Ops building were armed.
The standing joke was that the Regiment were afraid of the dark!