FGT OPERATING IN A RESTRICTED AREA AT A HIGHER ALT THAN INDICATED FOR ACTIVE AIRSPACE.

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I ASSUMED DUTIES AS RADAR CTLR AT THE COVINGTON LOW SECTOR AT XD04Z. FGT X FLT WAS OPERATING IN R5503A BTWN 4500 FT AND FL400 AS PREVIOUSLY CLRED BY THE LAST CTLR. AT APPROX XD30Z MY DATA CTLR NOTICED THAT THE MIL DESK WAS INDICATING THAT R5503 WAS ACTIVE FL300 AND BELOW. FGT X WOULD NOT RESPOND TO REPEATED XMISSIONS AND AREA SUPVR WAS NOTIFIED. FGT X WAS THEN OBSERVED TO EXIT THE CONFINES OF R5503A AND CAME UP ON ANOTHER FREQ INDICATING THAT HIS WING MAN HAD A MECHANICAL PROB AND HE WAS ESCORTING HIM BACK TO TOL. DURING THIS; MTR B ENTERED R5503A AT FL270 WITHOUT PERMISSION (WE WERE THE CTLING AGENCY) MADE 1 TURN AND EXITED. OUR INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT THE PREVIOUS RADAR CTLR AT COVINGTON LOW HAD ASSIGNED FGT X THE BLOCK ALT HE HAD REQUESTED PER THE AIRSPACE USAGE SCHEDULE AT THE SECTOR (ATTACHED). THIS SECTOR AND CTL OF R5503 WAS TRANSFERRED TO OUR AREA OF SPECIALIZATION JUST THIS WK AND APPARENTLY THERE ARE NO WRITTEN PROCS COVERING SITS LIKE THIS. I.E.; THE SCHEDULE SAYS ONE THING WHICH THE CTLR USES; AND WHAT THE MIL AREA DESK PUTS OUT TO THE REST OF THE CTR. WHILE THERE WERE NO APPARENT OPERRORS; THIS WAS A VERY DANGEROUS SIT WITH 2 FGT'S ENGAGED IN AIR COMBAT MANEUVER OP 10000 FT ABOVE THE TOP OF THE RESTR AREA.