Lt Col Paul Tedman, Commanding Officer 1 Regiment Army Air Corps (AAC), has served nearly 20 years in Army Aviation. Prior to the Wildcat AH1, he flew the Lynx on exercises and operations worldwide, including three tours of Iraq and four of Afghanistan. Following the end of 20 years of Lynx flying at Gutersloh in Germany, and nearly a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1 Regiment AAC moved to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton in Somerset last year to field and deliver the new Wildcat AH1 into frontline service. Since 2009 the Wildcat Fielding Team - Army (WFT-A) had been at Yeovilton undertaking fielding, operational evaluation and the design of student conversion to type (CTT) and conversion to role (CTR) courses. The WFT-A was renamed 652 Squadron in 2013 and has recently been re-subordinated under the command of Lt Col Tedman's 1 Regiment as the operational conversion squadron (OCS).
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