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RAF Regiment

Answer

The RAF Regiment provides force protection for airfields and counter Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) capability. It also acts as the RAF's ceremonial unit. As at 1 December 2016 its trained strength was 1,920 Regular and 570 Reserve personnel.

The table below provides the RAF Regiment’s Order of Battle including component units, locations and tasks.

Ser	Unit	Task	Location
Regular units
1	No 2 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Leeming
2	No 3 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Marham
3	No 4 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Brize Norton
4	No 5 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Lossiemouth
5	No 7 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Coningsby
6	No 8 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ	Force Protection	RAF Waddington
7	No 20 (Defence CBRN) Wing	Counter-Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear	RAF Honington
8	1 Squadron RAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Honington
9	II Squadron RAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Honington
10	15 Squadron RAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Honington
11	26 Squadron RAF Regiment	Counter-Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear	RAF Honington
12	27 Squadron RAF Regiment	Counter-Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear	RAF Honington
13	34 Squadron RAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Leeming
14	51 Squadron RAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Lossiemouth
15	The Queen’s Colour Squadron (63 Squadron RAF Regiment)	State Ceremonial / Force Protection	RAF Northolt
Part Time Volunteer Reserve units
16	603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron RAuxAF	Force Protection (manned by RAF Police and RAF Regiment personnel)	Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh
17	606 (Chiltern) Squadron RAuxAF	Joint Helicopter Command Support (Force Protection Flight manned by RAF Regiment personnel)	RAF Benson
18	609 Squadron (West Riding) RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Leeming
19	2503 (County of Lincoln) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Waddington
20	2620 (County of Norfolk) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Marham
21	2622 (Highland) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Lossiemouth
22	2623 (East Anglian) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection / Counter-Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear	RAF Honington
23	2624 (County of Oxford) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment	Force Protection	RAF Brize Norton

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

62332

Session

2016-17

Subjects

RAF Regiment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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