January
February
Special
UK to Kuwait
Flt Lt Guy Lendon plus 3. Deployment of Tornado
equipment in support of Kuwait Air Show
February
Exercise Rocky Lance
UK to Thumrait, Oman
Deployment of 1Bn Green Howards to Thumrait
February
Exercise Trumpet Dance
UK to McChord AFB, WA, USA
No details
March
Special
UK to Santiago, Chile
Deployment of support equipment to Chile for an
Air Show
March
UNPROFOR
UK to Belgrade, Serbia
Deployment of 24 Field Ambulance to Serbia as
part of UN Protection Force
March
Exercise Damsel Fair
UK to Sigonella, Sicily
Deployment of No 9 Fleet Clearance Diving Team
to Sicily
April
Operation Jural
Dhahran, Bahrain and Al Kharj
Support for No-Fly Zone over Southern Iraq
May
AUTEC
Homestead AFB, FL, USA to
KInloss, Scotland
Recovery of support equipment of 42 Squadron
(Nimrods) from Florida to Kinloss after AUTEC
Torpedo trials
May
Special
Thumrait, Oman to Marham, UK
Recovery of personnel and equipment of 31
Squadron  (Tornados) from Oman to Marham
June
 
Islamabad, Pakistan to UK
Recovery of UKLF personnel from Pakistan to UK
June
Exercise Tradewinds
Caribbean
Caribbean Trainer
July
Operation Cheshire
Zagreb, Sarajevo and Ancona
Flt Lt Mike Cumberland, Sgt Paddy Power plus 4.
The first of many flights into Sarajevo delivering
humanitarian aid
July
Operations Hampden and
Sharpguard
 
Support to Nimrods enforcing embargoes on
Yugoslavia
July
Special
Santa Maria, Azores to Boscombe
Down, UK
Recovery of ‘Snoopy’ C130W1 support equipment
from Azores to Boscombe Down.
July 1992 - December 1995
Operation Grapple
Bosnia - Herzegovina
Support for peacekeeping in the former Republic
of Yugoslavia
August
Operation Jural
Marham, UK
Flt Lt Jane Finding plus 5. Deployment of
Tornados to Gulf
August
Operation Jural
Bahrain
Flt Lt Mike Cumberland plus 5. Deployment of
Tornado detachment to Bahrain. (The Team
Leader returned from this task with his jaw wired
shut - he ignored the warnings of his men
concerning the lethality of a Tornado
wheelchange jack and the handle did the rest!)
August
Operation Jural
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Fg Off Chris Dunn plus 11. Deployment of
Tornado Det to Saudi Arabia
August
Special
Trenton, ON Canada to UK
Recovery of 54 Fd Squadron  RE from Canada to
UK
August
Operation Jural
UK to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Deployment of TCW to Saudi Arabia in support of
Ops
August
Operation Warden
UK to Adana Turkey
Deployment of Jaguars to Adana to oversee Safe
Haven
September

   
October
Tasking remained high for this month as Mobile teams continued to man the detachments at Zagreb, Dhahran and
Incirlik. Additionally Fg Off Andy State and a 6 man team deployed to Split in the Former Yugoslavian Republic for
Operation Grapple and FS Dave Giles deployed to Nairobi as the RAFLO for Exercise Grand Prix
October
Exercise Pond Jump West
UK to Edmonton, AB, Canada and
return
WO Ian Berry, Sgt Tony Prout, Cpl Geordie Gash
plus 1. Rotation of Infantry battalions exercising
at Wainwright, Canada
October
Exercise Alloy Express
Corlu, Turkey
Squadron Ldr Sean Culligan plus 6. IALCE
exercise in Turkey. OC MAMF eventually required
aeromed back to UK after landrover crash!
November
Teams continued to man detachments in Dhahran, Incirlik, Split and Zagreb in support of Ops. FS Maybery
deployed to Colombo as RAFLO reforce and personnel from MAMF attended SACs and MMARS courses in
preparation for their deployment to Yugoslavia in support of Ops Cheshire and Hanwood. Although no teams are
named in the F540 tasks were carried out at Andros, Edmonton, Las Vegas and Souda Bay
November
Luanda, Angola
Evacuation of British nationals from Angola
December
Support of the Ops in Saudi, Turkey, Croatia and Bosnia continued. OC MAMF, Sqn Ldr Sean Culligan deployed
with 12 men, vehicles and ACHE to Mombasa in support of two aircraft to assist with moving relief supplies into
Somalia. Other notable tasks included the deployment of 55 Squadron  (Victors) to Bahrain, 899 RNAS (Sea
Harriers) to Florennes and the recovery of the Royal Marines from Bateen
10 December 1992 - March 1993
Kenya and Somalia
Relief supplies from Mombasa to Somalia after
civil war