as a result of major reorganisation of the entire structure of the royal air force in the early 1990s, raf upavon became surplus to requirements, and the raf was to permanently withdraw from upavon. on 3 august 1993, the raf officially handed over the site to the british army. the airfield became a british army garrison called trenchard lines. when the army initially moved into upavon, it became home to headquarters doctrine & training. on 30 january 1995, it then became headquarters adjutant general. in april 2008 the base was absorbed within the newly formed hq land forces.