Must say I am pleased that the RAF Regt was not lost in its force protection/ground defence role.
I was recently involved with an Army unit's search for a "local training area", in which they could do blank firing, schermuly firing and other roughy-toughy stuff. They found an "ideal" area, landowner was content to rent it to them etc etc......
....slight problem. It was under the approach path of an international airport...... and less than 2Km from the threshold! They'd been recceing it for a coupla weeks, oblivious to the stream of jets going overhead at about 500ft. Probably not the best unit to defend an airfield...
"Air Aware" or what!!