It started out as a field squadron before becoming involved in the GBAD programme, where it operated the Rapier missile system.

37 Squadron was deployed to RAF Khormaksar to help in combatting the terrorist forces at work in Aden at that time.

[2] Whilst deployed in the Middle-East in 1963, three former British colonies in East Africa were the subject of mutinies by their respective armed forces.

37 squadron was deployed to Tanzania to secure an airhead there, whilst the Royal Marines were sent to quell the mutinies.

37 Squadron's Standard was awarded to them by Air Marshal Peter Terry in 1980 and is laid up in St Edmundsbury Cathedral - the national church of the RAF Regiment - in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.