title: Providing a military service.
abstract: Psychiatry is a major specialty within the Royal Air Force's ' medical service. Recent events, such as the freeing and psychological debriefing of the British hostages released from Beirut and the Gulf war prisoners, have increased public awareness of its existence.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Centre, Princess Alexandra's RAF Hospital, Wroughton.
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Jones