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Old 21st Sep 2015, 10:05
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Finningley Boy
 
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I think if you check RAF News, Page 2 normally has a map showing where the Service is deployed.

It's a damn sight more locations than Akrotiri holiday village I can tell you.
Camelspyder,

The RAF as with the other services has always had various less visible deployment locations strewn across the Globe; from Goosebay to Borneo.

But how many of the deployment locations are actually on a 'war footing' and the Baltic states don't count. I'll stick my neck out here, routine deployments to all manner of curious locations across the atlas have always been there, Squadrons have always deployed overseas either on exercises, armaments practice camps, shows of force or just to pop in to say hello but even outside of WWII and Korea, nothing was seen as being at war even if the deployment had a series nature to it. 25 squadron spent most of its being based at leuchars in 1962 over in Germany ready to escort transport aircraft down the Berlin air corridor with all that might result in, the fact we're all still here is because the Soviets who were routinely threatening to close off all access to Berlin, luckily didn't.

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