{"id":6909,"date":"2016-06-23T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2016-06-23T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:35:11","slug":"no-12-signals-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/no-12-signals-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"No.12 Signals Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Signals-Unit-12.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded:<\/strong> February 1972<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Circular Chain Or on a Rocky Mount a Cyprus Mouflon statant head affrontee all proper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The Cyprus Mouflon (Ovis Orientalis Ophion) standing upon a rocky mount associates the unit with its geographical location and the continuous chain in front of which the Mouflon is set is intended to symbolise the world-wide Defence Communications \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Network<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Swift and secure<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed as RAF Signals Centre Cyprus at RAF Ayios Nikolaos on 1 June 1956. Renamed RAF Communications Centre, Cyprus on 1 April 1959, before being re-designated No. 12 Signals Unit on 1 June 1969. Disbanded 1 Sept 2002<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No. 12 Signals Unit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: February 1972 Blazon: In front of a Circular Chain Or on a Rocky Mount a Cyprus Mouflon statant head affrontee all proper Link: The Cyprus Mouflon (Ovis Orientalis Ophion) standing upon a rocky mount associates the unit with its geographical location and the continuous chain in front of which the Mouflon is set is [&hellip;]<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909"}],"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=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}