 The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the entire UK based Thor missile force to maximum strategic alert and readiness for a ten-day period during October and November 1962.In 1964 the station was designated and prepared as an operational conversion unit for the expected deployment of the planned TSR-2 (Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance)aircraft.But when the TSR-2 programme was cancelled by the government in 1965, Hemswell had a brief existence as a sub site of 7 School of Recruit Training whose headquarters were at RAF Swinderby.