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Old 4th January 2007 | 14:59
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Tacr2man,

You make a good point, but if UH was the same format as Bentwaters and Woodbridge (ie a small piece of the USofA) then there would have been serious infrastructure issues with taking it on. Back in '92 there was the beginning of a plan to relocate many deployable units (and maybe even the Harrier Force, since in those days they were the "deployable" FJs) to Bentwaters/Woodbridge - but despite the initial "bravo, good idea chaps" the simple fact that these small pieces of USofA were fully wired with US power (110 volts) and US telecomms meant that the exorbitant infrastructure costs to bring them to UK standards were a key factor in binning the plan.
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