Ascension Island (British Overseas Territory)

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Ascension Island (British Overseas Territory)

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^ Georgetown, Ascension Island

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^ RAF Ascension

Introduction
RAF Ascension (IATA: ASI, ICAO: FHAW) (more commonly known as RAF Ascension Island, and sometimes known as Wideawake Airfield or Ascension Island Base), is a British Royal Air Force station on Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Equator.

RAF Ascension Island was re-garrisoned by the RAF in 1982 and used extensively as a staging airfield during the Falklands War. Operation Black Buck, the long range Vulcan bombing raid, was carried out from there. The airfield continues this staging post role for the Falkland Islands for the RAF.

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The station comes under the overall jurisdiction of the Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands, an officer of one-star rank. The RAF airfield on Ascension Island is run on a day-to-day basis by around nineteen RAF personnel, headed by a Wing Commander.

The RAF presence on Ascension is backed up by United States Air Force personnel, who contribute a similar number of service personnel to ensure the effective running of the station, who are responsible to the RAF Station Commander.

RAF Ascension Island is also the refuelling point for the Ministry of Defence's South Atlantic Air Bridge flights to RAF Mount Pleasant, on the Falkland Islands, from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, in the UK

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Ascension Island Administrator, Marc Holland, has made a visit to Saint Helena to look at their new airport.
http://www.ascension-island.gov.ac/admi ... st-helena/


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Ascension Island: Piers:Written question - 39460

Asked by Dr Matthew Offord
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has conducted of whether military personnel and contractors are able safely to load and unload equipment from Ministry of Defence vessels onto the pier head at Ascension Island.
Ascension Island: Piers:Written question - 39958

Asked by Zac Goldsmith
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what health and safety assessment his Department has conducted on military personnel or contractors loading or unloading equipment from his Department's vessels onto the pier head at Ascension Island.
Answered by: Mr Philip Dunne
The loading and unloading of freight from Ministry of Defence chartered vessels is conducted by the Ascension Island Government. A Health and Safety and Environmental Risk Assessment of loading/unloading equipment at the Ascension Islands pier head was undertaken by the Joint Forces Command Health and Safety lead in September 2015.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publi ... -06/39460/
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publi ... -08/39958/

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... ascension/

Sound alike a good home for a slice of our foreign aid/development budget

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