Following a series of fatal accidents in the newly established Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF), Saunders was invited to serve as a special advisor to the Minister of Defence of Denmark in 1954, in order to reorganise and, it was envisioned, bring the number of accidents in RDAF down. Saunders indeed reorganised the RDAF and, realising that most of the equipment/planes were of a tactical nature, established Tactical Air Command Denmark as the supreme HQ of RDAF.
Following a series of fatal accidents in the newly formed Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF), Saunders was invited to advise the Minister of Defence on how to improve safety and reduce accidents within the force. He successfully reorganized the RDAF, recognizing that most of their equipment was tactical in nature, and established Tactical Air Command Denmark as the supreme headquarters for the entire force.