The RAF Regiment, seen here in Afghanistan, is responsible for ensuring the protection of deployed RAF assets Credit: Alamy. The woman is understood to have been one of three to apply to join the ...

From Friday, the RAF Regiment – the air force’s ground fighting force for protecting air bases – will start accepting applications from women wanting to join the unit.

The RAF Regiment has become so strategically important that in July the Armed Forces Minister, Bill Rammell, announced a new squadron would be operational by October.

The Royal Air Force Regiment give force protection and defend airfields. They are not part of the army but fulfil the infantry roll in the RAF. He said: 'I am really really proud.

As a commander of RAF forces in Basra, Air Marshal Edward Stringer worked alongside Afghans to fight the Taliban. Now, he writes, we must fulfil our promise to give them security ...

I have been piecing together my grandfather’s war service with the RAF Regiment from his Form 543A and from the Operations Record Books for the two squadrons he served with — 2777 squadron and ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton at the St. Patrick's Day Parade at Mons Barracks in March 2023. Getty Images. Kate’s new RAF appointment bolsters a bond to the branch that was already strong.

Air Commodore Mickey Witherow, who has died aged 84, was one of the most influential post-war RAF Regiment officers specialising in desert warfare, airfield defence and diplomacy; he epitomised ...

StormShroud will be under the operational command of the 216 Squadron, with additional support provided by the RAF Regiment. Personnel from various sectors of the UK Defence establishment, ...

Air VICE-MARSHAL DONALD POCOCK, who has died aged 88, was one of the founder members of the RAF Regiment on its formation in 1942 and the first full-career officer of the Corps to become its ...

2742 squadron were at RAF Merston in June 1944. Based there were 145 Wing of the RAF, part of 84 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force. Three spitfire squadrons were based at Merston, being Nos. 329, 340 ...