No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment

No. 1 Squadron, RAF Regiment
No. 1 Squadron, RAF Regiment
	Badge of No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment
Active	1921 - present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Air Force Infantry
Role	Ground Defence
Garrison/HQ	RAF Honington, Suffolk
Motto(s)	Swift and Sudden
Battle honours	Kurdistan 1922-23 ; Kurdistan 1930-31 ; Palestine 1936 ; Habbaniya, Iraq 1941 ; Egypt & Libya 1941-43 ; Gulf 1991 ; Former Yugoslavia Jun 95 ; Bosnia - Jun 97 ; Kuwait - Feb 99 (Op DESERT FOX) ; Iraq 2003 - 2011 ; Afghanistan 2001-2014

No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack, and patrolling a large area around main operating bases abroad, in order to defend aircraft on ingress and egress from surface to air attack. It is currently based at RAF Honington.

^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 227. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

[1] Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 227. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

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