Talk:RAF Regiment

message: Nothing here about press gang activities in WWII. Spike Milligan claimed that this danger was well known to army regulars of the period and many were "recruited" this way.  I'm sure there must be other sources too. (82.43.189.130 20:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Spike Milligan was hardly a reliable source; mad as a hatter, and please put new sections at the bottom of the page and sign your posts.--Charles (talk) 23:22, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

message: I have converted the TRF to SVG format, but I wonder about the discrepancy between the flash  displayed on this page and the flash displayed on the RAF article. I'm quite ignorant of RAF designs -- if they stand for two different things, please let me know; the RAF article should probably show both. Otherwise, the two files should be merged. Thanks! MithrandirMageT 15:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, nevermind. I think I've figured it out; they're for two different parts of the RAF, correct? The image's name (RAF TRF) does not give any indication that it belongs to the RAF Regiment and not the RAF. MithrandirMageT 15:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TRF 

message: Removed this unreferenced statement "The Regiment are a very capable and adaptable fighting force allowing them to be deployed anywhere in the world". Lets keep personal opinions out of the article please, anything that sounds like it was copy/pasted from the RAF Careers website will be removed unless reliably referenced. (81.156.39.125 (talk) 11:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Please don't remove posts from this page (unless they are your own), what's being removed doesn't appear to be vandalism, and is the view of an individual, even if you don't agree with it.  See WP:TALK.  David Underdown (talk) 12:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I was referring to things that have been blanked from this talk page, not from the article.  David Underdown (talk) 13:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing posts from this page 

message: David, you beat me to that edit about the Army hatred.  Very POV and unsupported Boooooom (talk) 13:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Army Hatred POV 

message: I've restore this as it is obiously a nickname in use, is referenced, has been there for some time and there is no consensus  for removal.  It doesn't relly matter wheither it is complementary or not  See Royal Marine for instance.  92.0.133.121 (talk) 11:56, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SRDG 

message: FLTLT Percry Henry Mason was my grandfather. It is the first I have heard of the term 'rock apes', but I'll remember to ask my grandmother the next time I see her. I'm not sure if it is accurate when the article mentions a fellow RAF officer shot him. I was under the impression it was an Iraqi soldier who was hunting with them. FLTLT Mason was not only shot, the wound pearced his heart (left ventical I believe). One of the soldiers (an Iraqi) plugged the wound with his finger and then proceeded on an 8 hour journey to the closest hospital before being flown back to Aden. His men lined up in droves to offer donor blood. The RAF Doctor then peformed a new form(at the time) of blood transfusionon on him that saved his life. He was at the time only the second person to survive being shot through the heart. FLTLT Mason(RTD)passed away in Feb of 2004 at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand. I have an uncle also in Christchurch who wrote a family edition book on him and his wife Pauline.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.56.124.50 (talk) 02:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock Apes - FLTLT Mason 

message: I propose to redirect all Force Protection Wing HQs to this article, as the existing articles are mere stubs without significant chance of growth. Only two of them have articles, both of which are a single line replicating the entry here, with infoboxes whose info could be contained in a table here. While we are at it some of the information at "RAF FP Force Headquarters" could be translated into lay terms here and improve this article. --Bejnar (talk) 15:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Or at best create the :RAF Force Protection Force Headquarters article and put them there. --Bejnar (talk) 15:07, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and i believe it will be best if someone creates the :RAF Force Protection Force Headquarters article. Gavbadger (talk) 15:10, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

text: Merger completed by Gavbadger. Reviewed by --Bejnar (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge all Force Protection Wing HQs here

message: The Regiment's first depot was Belton Park, near Grantham. There was no such place as Alma House. The camp was established on land off Londonthorpe Road adjacent to Belton Park, and when the RAF Regiment left in 1946 the site was taken over by Grantham Borough Council to provide temporary housing. It was named Alma Park Estate in November 1946 (<Grantham Journal 15 Nov 1946>)Samnviv (talk) 19:53, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alma House and Park 

message: An editor has now inserted a claim that the RAF Regiment Gunners are an "elite" team four times in about two hours. I have asked that editor to read WP:PEACOCK, WP:ADVERT, WP:CITE and now WP:3RR. At the very least the claim needs to be independently cited. Dormskirk (talk) 00:21, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: , would you like to come here and explain your repeated reinsertion of this term? It does not appear supportable. Do you have other backing that we are not otherwise aware of? Buckshot06 (talk) 03:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  has politely popped up at my talkpage and provided the http://www.mod.uk link stating that RAF Regiment personnel are elite. However, Wikipedia is not in the business of uncritically mirroring the UK MOD. Think whether Encyclopedia Britannica would have replicated French claims about the Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air twentyfive years ago. MOD claims are not WP:INDEPENDENT, they're not WP:THIRDPARTY. Other third-party sources would be required to justify the elite claims. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:35, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Citations need to be independent. Dormskirk (talk) 23:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like puffery to me, and certainly requires an reliable source independent of the MOD. In fact I would go so far as to say it is an exceptional claim and requires a very high quality source. Cheers, Peacemaker67  (click to talk to me) 00:39, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

text:  As requested please refer to the link below for an indepedant source of reference?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/692547/RAF-hero-proved-MUCH-more-match-kidnappers  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Realmbusiness (talk • contribs) 23:54, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The Daily Express, being a tabloid like the Daily Mail, does not meet the criteria for WP:RS. Dormskirk (talk) 21:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Elite" team