RAF Patch Regt sb 27 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment 2009 Mad

RAF Patch 27 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment Desert DZ Mid Size 2009 Afghanistan Force Protection Base defence Embroidered on twill merrowed edge 65mm by 65mm two and one half inches by two and one half inches.

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Motto: – Defensores Defendo I defend the defender.

No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment was formed on 3 September 1951 at RAF Yatesbury. The squadron was first deployed to Abu Suer in Egypt and saw its first action on 28 November 1951 with four enemy killed. The Squadron remained in Egypt predominately as an Internal Security force until it redeployed to Cyprus in January 1956.

27 Squadron relocated to RAF Leuchars Scotland in the early 1980s tasked with anti-aircraft defence equipped with the Rapier Field Standard A anti-aircraft missile system. Detachments from 27 Squadron were regularly deployed to Belize in Central America, to provide airfield defence.

The Squadron moved to RAF Scampton in 1995 as part of the RAuxAF Regiment. On April 1 1999 27 Squadron and 1st Royal Tank Regiment merged to form the Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Regiment Jt NBC Regiment and moved to RAF Honington. 27 Squadron was
responsible for the Biological Detection Capability of the Jt NBC Regt. Following the addition of radiological weapons to the Regiments remit in 2005 it was renamed Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear Regiment Joint CBRN Regiment. 27 Sqn temporarily re-roled to full Field Squadron status in 2008 and following an intensive period of training and re-equipping deployed to Kandahar Afghanistan in 2009 for a tour of duty in the Force Protection role.

On its return 27 Squadron resumed its Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Regiment role. In 2012 the Jt CBRN Regiment disbanded with 27 Squadron continuing in the CBRN defence role as part of the new Defence CBRN Wing while 1st Royal Tank Regiment returned to the Army with Challenger 2 tanks. 

This patch dates from 2009.