Originally Posted by
cheekychimp
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.
The Regiment does also have FP Wing HQs and squadrons on sufficiently high readiness (the exact detail isn't for a public forum) to make them usable. Regiment were deployed.