RAF South Cerney

RAF South Cerney is a former Royal Air Force station which is now known as the Duke of Gloucester Barracks and is home of 29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment Royal Logistic Corps and the Joint Air Mounting Centre. It is located in the village of South Cerney near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.

Units located at Duke of Gloucester Barracks
The Joint Air Mounting Centre (JAMC) is located 20 mi away from RAF Brize Norton, the MOD's Air Port of Embarkation. The JAMC facilities mean that a Very High Readiness formation can mount and poise before deploying on operations or exercises. The JAMC can offer facilities such as an operations suite, briefing rooms and sufficient holding areas for men and equipment up to brigade size.

The JAMC also offers welfare, life support and accommodation facilities that complement those facilities available at RAF Brize Norton. Formed units from all 3 Services will report to the JAMC for processing, baggage checks, feeding and travel to RAF Brize Norton.

It has three very large hangars which are used for processing up to 1,500 'through troops' on operations and exercises, a process which can take anything up to 3 weeks. The Joint movements staff at the JAMC come predominantly from a 29 Regt RLC squadron, but the RLC personnel are also complimented by a small team of RAF Logistics (Mover) personnel; the Officer Commanding JAMC is an RAF Logistics officer.

No. 29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment Royal Logistic Corps is also located at the barracks.

History
During the Second World War a number of training units were posted to the airfield:


 * No. 3 Flying Training School
 * No. 3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit
 * No. 3 Service Flying Training School
 * No. 23 Group Communications Flight
 * No. 23 (Training) Group
 * No. 27 Group Communications Flight
 * No. 625 Gliding Squadron
 * No. 625 Volunteer Gliding Squadron
 * No. 1519 Beam Approach Training Flight
 * No. 1539 Beam Approach Training Flight
 * Air Crew Allocation Unit
 * Aircrew Officer Training School

Runways
The site has two short runways that are regularly used by two commercial freefall parachuting businesses. The airfield is marked on aeronautical charts as a drop zone.

Today the barracks have good connections to the A419 and A417 trunk roads allowing easy access to the whole of the southern England, via the M4 and M5 Motorway.