Originally Posted by
Asturias56
back in the '80's and early 90's you'd often see convoys heading to/from Burghfield - and on several occasions broken down vehicles surrounded by a large guard of troops.
But really there is not much of an alternative
They always put up a Puma out of Odiham (about 10 miles south of Burghfield) to 'shadow' these SST movements or alternatively keep one on 'standby' duty.
Whenever there was an 'exercise' deploying GLCMs out of Greenham Common, it seemed the Army Air Corps would cover the task.