{"id":7775,"date":"2017-03-30T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:27:25","slug":"armament-practice-station-acklington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/30\/armament-practice-station-acklington\/","title":{"rendered":"Armament Practice Station Acklington"},"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\/2017\/03\/Armament-Practice-Stn-Acklington-1.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>Armament Practice Station, Acklington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awarded: July 1951<\/p>\n<p>Blazon: A Lion rampant Or supporting an open Book Azure\/Or\/Argent and holding in the dexter jamb an Arrow Or\/Azure<\/p>\n<p>Link: The lion is indicative of the fighting spirit essential for personnel to be trained in air-gunnery. The book symbolises the learning needed for this role, and the arrow the weapons the personnel of the unit must learn to use.<\/p>\n<p>Date of Issue: July 1951<\/p>\n<p>Motto: Latin: <em>Peritiae semper studimus<\/em> \u2013 Study always to be expert<\/p>\n<p>History: Formed 1 May 1946. Disbanded 27 July 1956<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Armament Practice Station Acklington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armament Practice Station, Acklington Awarded: July 1951 Blazon: A Lion rampant Or supporting an open Book Azure\/Or\/Argent and holding in the dexter jamb an Arrow Or\/Azure Link: The lion is indicative of the fighting spirit essential for personnel to be trained in air-gunnery. The book symbolises the learning needed for this role, and the arrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}