No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment was an RAF Regiment Field Squadron between 1951 and 2008. It was reformed in 2010 as a specialist Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Squadron initially based at RAF Honington in Suffolk. When it was a Field Squadron, it served at locations such as RAF Abu Sueir, RAF Habbaniya, RAF Amman, RAF Tymbou, RAF Nicosia, RAF Changi, RAF Bicester, RAF Gutersloh and RAF Laarbruch. It took part in Operation's Granby and Desert Storm in 1990-91 and latterly it was based at RAF Waddington as a Rapier Squadron. History The Squadron was formed at RAF Yatesbury on 27 August 1951 and spent the next 5 years in the Middle East at Abu Sueir in Egypt, Habbaniya in Iraq and Mafrac in Jordan. In late 1956, the squadron moved to Cyprus to partake in peacekeeping duties and stayed there for 8 years before moving on to RAF Changi, Singapore. In 1967 they returned to the UK and were stationed at RAF Bicester as an Independent LLD Squadron Armed with 40mm L/70 Bofors guns and, together and with 1 Squadron RAF Regiment, they formed 5 Wing RAF Regiment. During their posting at Bicester they went on many active detachments in a ground defence role. These included Bahrain, Antigua and Salalah. They took part in major joint services exercises in Libya and Cyprus. The operation in Antigua was classified Top Secret when trouble broke out in Anguilla. They were given just 48 hours’ notice to assemble 40 men plus 8 Landrovers and responded with a deployment in around 21 hours from scratch despite over half the squadron being away on two other operational overseas deployments at the same time. It was only after a month or so before the operation was de-classified and wives and families could be told where they were. In 1969 they were due to relieve a brother Squadron who were doing street patrols in Belfast. This was to happen a week before Christmas however in he second week of December it was announced that they were to be the first unit in the British forces to receive the Rapier Missile and were to be posted to Germany. The whole squadron moved to RAF Gutersloh in 1970, complete with l/70 Bofors and associated equipment. The planned tour in Belfast was cancelled. In 1972 they undertook a tour of duty in Northern Ireland, the bofors were still