Provides experienced staff officers to support air intelligence activity in the UK and overseas.
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Personnel are largely recruited from ex-regular Intelligence Officers or long serving reservists. The Squadron maintains a niche resource of Subject Matter Experts. Squadron members generally work individually at HQs and stations across the UK and abroad. Personnel have deployed worldwide on exercise and operations since 1958.
1958 Formed as 7630 Flight RAF Volunteer Reserve to provide a pool of Russian linguists.
1972 Broadened Intelligence roles to provide analysis and briefing capabilities.
1997 Became 7630(VR) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
2003 - 2014 deployed in support of Op TELIC and Op HERRICK .
2017 Re-roled to become a Subject Matter Expert squadron within the Intelligence Reserves Wing.
7630 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN5 9NB
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