In the days that the Military Command Council ran Woodbridge, their military forces became known as the Woodbridge Air Force (WAF). To the amusement of the British citizens, this sounded a lot like WRAF. When the civilian government took over in 2001, the WAF was divided into land forces under the name of the Army of Woodbridge (AW) and a small air force called the Air Force of Woodbridge (AFW). The AW was originally based around the USAF 81st Security (Air) Police Squadron, which acted as the military police and ground defence force of RAFs Woodbridge and Bentwaters. The AFW basically consists of the aircraft of the old 67th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron.