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Awarded:<\/strong> May 1974<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> Alighting upon two Claymores in saltire Argent hilted Gules a Snowy Owl affrontee wings expanded and inverted proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Snowy Owl found only in Scotland can see in light 100 times less than a human and alludes to No 8 (AEW) Squadron which hunts by radar. It also represents the wisdom being given by the Jaguar Operational Conversion Unit. The claymores, local to Scotland, symbolise the location and attack potential of the station.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Gaelic: Thoir an aire<\/em> \u2013 To be watchful<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened on 1 May 1939 and remains current<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood\u00a0 and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Lossiemouth<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: May 1974 Blazon: Alighting upon two Claymores in saltire Argent hilted Gules a Snowy Owl affrontee wings expanded and inverted proper. Link: The Snowy Owl found only in Scotland can see in light 100 times less than a human and alludes to No 8 (AEW) Squadron which hunts by radar. It also represents the […]<\/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\/6247"}],"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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}