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The Unit Crest

The Squadron motto "Fortiter In Re" comes from the old Latin tag: "Fortiter in Re, suaviter in modo" (Sometimes quotes the other way round) which means forcibly (Or resolutely) in deed, gentle in manner.

The motto is translated by Brewer as follows:
"Firmness in doing what is to be done; an unflinching resolution to persevere to the end"

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