The RCAF Ground Defence School

[daftandbarmy]

You know things are getting tight when the air force fixes bayonets

But seriously folks, is this something that is still practiced?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPvgh5aqtuc

 

[Colin Parkinson]

They got their shoulder patches, so their morale will be good to for the bayonet charge.

 

[Blackadder1916]

A small snippet found farther down this sheet.

https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1952/1952%20-%201795.PDF

27 June 1952
SERVICE AVIATION
Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News

R.C.A.F. Ground Defence
AT Camp Borden this month the Royal
Canadian Air Force is opening a
ground defence school. F/L. B. P. Coote,
who will be in command, is loaned by the
R.A.F. Regiment in the United Kingdom.

My personal experience of anything (even remotely, very remotely) similar was BDF training in the 70s and 80s.

 

[medicineman]

We're not allowed to call it BDF - too aggressive or something, lol.  BASF - Base Auxilliary Security Force - now :

MM

 

[Haggis]

Can't call them BASF, either.  That name is already taken.

Maybe "Wing Auxiliary Security Force"?  "Whass-F" has a nice ring to it.

 

[dimsum]

Can't call them BASF, either.  That name is already taken.

Maybe "Wing Auxiliary Security Force"?  "Whass-F" has a nice ring to it.

WASF is the actual term for those folks on airbases.  So....yes?

 

[medicineman]

Can't call them BASF, either.  That name is already taken.

Maybe "Wing Auxiliary Security Force"?  "Whass-F" has a nice ring to it.

:

Was the title when I escaped the Reg Force.  So now some cubicle dweller has propelled themselves into another job to come up with an appropriate name...wonder how big their staff is?  I'm thinking of changing employers again...

MM

 

[George Wallace]

Can't call them BASF, either.  That name is already taken.

Maybe "Wing Auxiliary Security Force"?  "Whass-F" has a nice ring to it.

Even better: "Wing Auxilary Security Unit Protection"..........................WhAS UP!

 

[The Bread Guy]

Or the "Wing Tactical Force" ...

 

[OldSolduer]

Or the "Wing Tactical Force" ...

Hey they might need a civilian coordinator/consultant.....hmmmm I'm a civvy as of 2 March 2017....

 

[The Bread Guy]

Hey they might need a civilian coordinator/consultant.....hmmmm I'm a civvy as of 2 March 2017....

OIC of WTF?  ;D

 

[bLUE fOX]

This post reminds me of a story about the University Naval Training Divisions in Canada. When they were initially stood up, someone in the naval headquarters had initially called the program  Canadian University Naval Training Service. It's a shame they didn't have the internet back then.