Originally Posted by
BATCO
Dan, J, AirPol
Outline of incident at Ternhill (from BBC account, 20 Feb 89):
[COMMENT: From what I recall at time, the biggest shock to the RAF was that the Army had armed guards/sentries: RAF was still (less certain facilities and specialist personnel) on unarmed guards/sentries.]
Regards
Batco
I was on guard duty at Cosford that particular night, and IIRC the alert state was already higher than normal, but in the early hours I remember being recalled early from foot patrol by an irate GC(we thought someone had seen my partner having a crafty fag), as we got to the VCP he asked us to unload(SLR but empty magazines) and then produced clear sealed plastic bags with full magazines to load. We were told the alert state had gone up and we were to search the OM area first. Not a nice feeling at all, OMQs patch was very open and easy to access on foot. IIRC we didn't hear about the Tern Hill attack until the morning(just as well really).