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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1962<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Khunjar Sable detailed Or an Arabian Fort Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The fort represents a base of operations, staging post and support base, all being roles of the unit. The Khunjar is a local weapon and is indicative of the location and readiness to fight.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Arabic: Min al-barr ila al-sama<\/em> – From the land to the sky.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Sharjah was in use as an airfield by 54, 70 & 84 Sqns in 1933 and closed 15 December 1971.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Cpl John Phillips who served at RAF Station Sharjah as a carpenter and joined, 1965-66, and dedicated to all Service and Civilian personnel who have served there.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: August 1962 Blazon: In front of a Khunjar Sable detailed Or an Arabian Fort Or. Link: The fort represents a base of operations, staging post and support base, all being roles of the unit. The Khunjar is a local weapon and is indicative of the location and readiness to fight. Motto: Arabic: Min al-barr […]<\/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\/6335"}],"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=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}