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The Royal Air Force Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC), at Adastral Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, is the centre through which every potential RAF officer must go to be selected for Initial Officer Training (IOT) and through which potential non-commissioned aircrew must go to be selected for the Direct Entry Senior Non-commissioned Officer (DE-SNCO) course.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [8]
Gunner, [note 1] [1] [10] RAF Police [1] TG8 is the Force Protection group. [11] Firefighters and RAF Regiment Gunners were transferred to TG8 from TG22 in 1976. [3] In the same year, RAF Firefighters were separated from the Regiment Command Structure and became a separate trade. [12] [2] TG9 Flight Operations Assistant [1] [13]
2022, February Present Poland & Romania: UK contribution to NATO's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] Azotize 2014, April Present Lithuania & Estonia [2] UK contribution to NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission. [3] [4] Biloxi 2017, April Present Romania: UK contribution to NATO's Southern Air Policing mission. [5] [6] Broadshare ...
At this time, numbers of personnel were over one million The Vulcan at RAF Waddington, 1982. Post the Falklands Conflict, the RAF had just over 89,000 people in service. RAF 7 Force Protection Wing delivers training to support mass school testing in 2021. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, personnel numbered around 33,000
In November 2022, the 1-star (Air Officer (AO) FP) was re-roled into AO Global Enablement (GE), resulting in the disbandment of the FP Force. PM(RAF) is in command of the RAF Police, MPGS and associated civil servants. This new force is known as the Air Security Force (ASF). PM(RAF) also now attracts the title of Commander ASF.
A deal was signed in March 2019 that will see the RAF procure five E-7 aircraft for approximately £1.5bn. [38] However, the 2021 defence white paper cut the total number of aircraft to only three. [26] These will be based at RAF Lossiemouth alongside the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, and were initially due to enter service in 2023.
The wing was formed in 2016 merging several ISR units into a new speciality wing including the Tactical Imagery-Intelligence Wing, the signals intelligence and electronic intelligence No. 54 Signals Unit and imagery analysts from V (AC) Squadron.