No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment

No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
	Squadron badge
Active	21 August 1947 – September 1957; 13 July 1964 – 31 March 1993; 8 May 2001 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Air Force Infantry
Role	Force protection
Part of	No. 5 Force Protection Wing
Home station	RAF Lossiemouth
Motto(s)	Celeriter defendere; (Latin for 'Swift to defend')
Battle honours	France and Low Countries (1944–1945); Iraq (2003–2011); Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
Insignia
Badge	In front of a curved sword with a notched blade is a cheetah depicted at full stride.
Badge heraldry	Approved in November 1975. The cheetah, a swift, aggressive animal capable of being controlled, is depicted in full stride and the sword with its cutting edge to the right emphasises its military use and refers to the County of Middlesex where the unit was formed.

No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack.

^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1st publish. ed.). London [u.a.]: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 32. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
^ "51 Squadron RAF Regiment". RAF Heraldry Trust. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

[1] Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1st publish. ed.). London [u.a.]: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 32. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

[2] "51 Squadron RAF Regiment". RAF Heraldry Trust. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

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No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment
Squadron badge
Active	21 August 1947 (1947-08-21) – September 1957 13 July 1964 – 31 March 1993 8 May 2001 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Air Force Infantry
Role	Force protection
Part of	No. 5 Force Protection Wing
Home station	RAF Lossiemouth
Motto(s)	Celeriter defendere (Latin for 'Swift to defend')^[1]
Battle honours	France and Low Countries (1944–1945) Iraq (2003–2011)* *Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
Insignia
Badge	In front of a curved sword with a notched blade is a cheetah depicted at full stride.
Badge heraldry	Approved in November 1975. The cheetah, a swift, aggressive animal capable of being controlled, is depicted in full stride and the sword with its cutting edge to the right emphasises its military use and refers to the County of Middlesex where the unit was formed.^[2]