| RAF Reserves - 606 Chiltern Squadron, RAF Benson |
 The Company’s third Armed Services affiliation is with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and was made in 2004 with 606 (Chiltern Squadron) based at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire. 606 comprises a Headquarters element and 4 operational flights; Logistics Engineering, Operations and Regiment, a total of 187 personnel. The role of the Squadron is to provide a pool of trained personnel to augment the Support Helicopter force in times of crisis and war. The Support Helicopter Force itself comprises of all of the Royal Air Force’s Support Helicopter Squadrons together with the associated ground forces required to conduct 24 hour operations in support of the British Army. 606 is part of Joint Helicopter Command providing support to the operation of the tri-service command across the whole range of its work. It is unique in being the only Reserve Squadron to do so. Members of the squadron have again deployed across all the theatres in which the UK has been involved including Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. At the Company’s Installation Dinner each November the Master gives, on behalf of the Company, an award to a member of all three of the Armed Service Affiliations recommend by their Commanding Officers, who along with another member of each affiliation Service is an Honorary Freeman of the Company.
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