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Old 30th Dec 2008, 21:29
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Mr C Hinecap
 
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The EAW is the Command and Control plus generic support functions from the base. These are held at a different readiness cycle to the aircraft based there - these are Force Elements At Readiness (FE@R). We've not got enough seperate bases holding different aircraft types for these to match up.

More official blah:

RAF - Expeditionary Air Wings
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