LENDING - NOT COMMONLY KNOWN FACTS

[Gil Boyd]

Brit Plumber,
Yes correct. All bases in the UK which still number 6 operational, excluding the Embassy buildings and home in Regents Park are lend lease through the MOD and the RAF have overall title to the land and thats why they run both the US and RAF flags side by side at all locations except the US Embassies in London.
To have a "foreign" power on your soil operating potentially "hostile" aircraft and Forces, is quite a big deal, but normally a lucrative one!
We have hidden agendas of course as a nation, as it suits our purpose to have another power on our turf, so they to can respond to any Soviet or other threat, especially our brothers in arms the Americans!
Obama was going to close the major fighter wings here Mildenhall/Lakenheath but Trump is keeping them active. Hope so, as we have always worked well together, and it gives the US and UK military families somewhere decent to spend a posting in resciprocle agreements!!