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Awarded:<\/strong> December 1950<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Hurt an Eagle displayed wings inverted perched on a Scimitar all Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The station claims to have played a prominent part in maintaining law and order in the Jordan, and in 1924 to have saved the country from being overrun by the Wahibi tribes. The eagle and scimitar symbolise the ruling Hashemite dynasty whilst the hurt represents the role played by the RAF during this event.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Swift to defend<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> British air support had been extended to the new separately mandated country of Jordan at Amman since its creation in 1920. RAF Station Amman officially opened on 1 April 1933. Control of the station transferred to Royal Jordanian Air Force on 31 May 1957<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Amman<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: December 1950 Blazon: In front of a Hurt an Eagle displayed wings inverted perched on a Scimitar all Or Link: The station claims to have played a prominent part in maintaining law and order in the Jordan, and in 1924 to have saved the country from being overrun by the Wahibi tribes. The eagle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}