Just like any organisation, the RAF has a management structure and everyone has a place within it – their rank.

We use ranks so everyone has a clear line of management, wherever and however they work.

Air Command

RAF High Wycombe, at Naphill in Buckinghamshire, is the home of the RAF’s Air Command. It was formed on 1 April 2007, when the RAF’s Personnel and Training Command and Strike Command merged. The creation of a single Command, with a single, fully integrated headquarters, better equips the RAF to provide a coherent and co-ordinated single air focus to the other Services, Ministry of Defence (MOD) Head Office, the Permanent Joint Headquarters and the rest of the MOD.

Air Command is divided into ‘groups’ and then into ‘wings’. These are put together from two or more squadrons – the basic organisational units of the RAF.