Originally Posted by
minigundiplomat
To expand on Toadstool's reply, the RAF Regt were the wrong end of banter during the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles as the 'short range desert group' and known for keeping the EFI safe
and that banter turned into pure hatred and bile by some very ill informed people. I don't remember any of our casualties being killed or wounded on camp, except in the Bastion attack and Basra rocketing, in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army/Tongans sat in the towers at Bastion.
Back on track, the RAF Regt don't have a Battalion/Commando sized unit sat on standby for this sort of thing. We have troops on the AMPTs and TACPs, but that isn't newsworthy.