No 4626 County of Wiltshire Aeromedical
Evacuation
Squadron of the Royal Air Force
The squadron was
formed at RAF Wroughton on 9th September 1983, after the
Falkland War, when it was appreciated that insufficient medical personnel
were available for this type of conflict. The move to RAF Hullavington
happened in April 1986, as the squadron out grew the premises at
Wroughton. The squadron badge
was designed by one of the squadron nurses with the very apt motto TUTE
DOMUM Safely Home. Relocation
to RAF Lyneham took place with the closure of RAF Hullavington in May
1993. Thus setting the
foundations for when Tactical Medical Wing (TMW) was established
later. The saga does not end;
another move is expected in the not too distant future, with RAF Brize
Norton high on the list.
As a Reserve
Squadron we feel very much an integral part of The Princess Mary’s Royal
Air Force Nursing Service not only because of the partnership with our
colleagues in TMW, but also through links established at the Royal College
of Defence Medicine at Birmingham, the Aeromed cell at RAF Brize Norton,
and in various other settings where we have supported our full time RAF
counterparts.
The full
squadron was deployed to Saudi Arabia and Muharraq in 1991 participating
in Op Granby, the first Gulf War with nurses detached to all four of the
sites that were 
taken over from
1AES Riyadh, Al Jubyal, Dhahran, and Muharraq. Tense times indeed as the air raid
warnings went off numerous times a night. We remain proud of the distinction
of being members of the only reserve Squadron to be mobilised and deployed
(at that time) to a theatre of war since cessation of hostilities in
1945.
A number of
our nurses have undertaken periods of secondment, as well as all of them
being mobilised to work along side our regular counterparts, during recent
hostilities. 
Gulf
War II saw the majority of the squadron working out in Cyprus, and on
aeromedical flights back to UK.
It was our squadron Nurses who on detachment to Alamara were
closely involved in the after math of the tragic shooting incident of June
6th 2004. Many
others were involved in performing Aeromedical Evacuation flights into
Basrah, and other places in the world.
Today the
Nursing members of the squadron are drawn from a wide variety of clinical
specialities, and a wide variety of grades, from Student Nurses to Senior
Nurse, and from Hospital based Nurses to Practice Nurse to Resuscitation
Officer’s
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Princess Mary's Royal Air Force
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