{"id":8693,"date":"2017-10-18T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:28:06","slug":"tactical-supply-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/tactical-supply-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical Supply Wing"},"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_3&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tactical-Supply-Wing.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;2_3&#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>Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Bridge of three arches Or set upon a base wavy barry Argent\/Azure a Peregrine Falcon volant proper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The bridge symbolizes communication and is depicted with three arches in reference to all three Royal Air Force Commands and for the three United Kingdom Armed Services. The aggressive bird with wings fully extended appropriately identifies with a &#8220;Supply Wing&#8221; and the motto clearly relates to the Wing&#8217;s primary function.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Issue:<\/strong> March 1992<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Support to strike<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Tactical Supply Wing formed at Stafford in late 1970 and became operational on 1 January 1971. It remains current.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the RAF Servicing Commando &amp; Tactical Supply Wing Association: \u201cDedicated to all associated with TSW. Providing crucial support to battlefield helicopters on worldwide operations, from Stafford to the front line and beyond\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blazon: In front of a Bridge of three arches Or set upon a base wavy barry Argent\/Azure a Peregrine Falcon volant proper Link: The bridge symbolizes communication and is depicted with three arches in reference to all three Royal Air Force Commands and for the three United Kingdom Armed Services. The aggressive bird with wings [&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\/8693"}],"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=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}