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Old 12th Oct 2007, 08:47
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In all honesty I don't believe that the Army would want the RAF Regt task.

Whilst it is true that the RAF Regt do a lot more than walk the wire it is still one of their core tasks. How many infantrymen do you know who would be happy being detached to Afghanistan to guard an airbase?

If the Army did take the task I could see them raising a deployable version of MPGS to carry out the task with longer periods of deployment on shorter fixed-term contracts in a similar manner to the US with their auxiliary security staff (such as the ones that used to guard Camp Doha in Kuwait).
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