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[40] [42] Enlisted personnel wear the dark blue SF beret which bears the fabric SF "Flash" depicting a falcon over an airfield with the SF motto "Defensor Fortis", literally meaning "Strong Defender" but taken to mean "defender of the force" according to the Air Force, underneath. An officer's "Flash" is similar in appearance but replaces the ...
[4] [74] The new Security Forces Beret Flash depicts the 1041st's falcon over an airfield on a dark–blue shield–shaped patch bordered in gold with a white scroll at its base embroidered with the motto "Defensor Fortis" (defenders of the force) in dark–blue title case.
Defensor Fortis: Defender of the Force: Official motto of the United States Air Force Security Forces (Security Police). Dei gratia: By the grace of God: Part of the full style of a monarch historically considered to be ruling by divine right, notably in the style of the English and British monarch since 1521 Dei gratia regina: By the Grace of ...
To protect deployed weapons systems against sabotage and enlarge a base defense force. [2]The unit will also provide force protection for such deployed locations as a Main Operating Base, Standy Base, Limited Base, Co-located Operating Base or Bare Base; and operate in a joint service environment to include host nation forces at all levels of conflict to include military operations other than war.
[10] [3] The new uniform included a blue serge wool beret with affixed SAC patch, making the Elite Guard the first Air Force unit authorized (from 1957 onwards) to wear the blue beret. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The blue beret became the prototype for the headgear later introduced for wear by all Air Force security forces.
Defensor pacis ('defender of peace'), a 1324 tract by Marsilius of Padua about popular sovereignty Defensor minor, written around 1342; Defensor Fortis, motto of United States Air Force Security Forces; Fidei defensor ('defender of the faith'), a phrase used as part of the full style of many monarchs and heads of state
The patch honors the team's owner, Peter Seidler, who died in 2023 at the age of 63 after battling an illness. Seidler believed that the San Diego franchise would be able to spend and compete with ...
Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave and USS Florida. fortes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the brave: From the letters of Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Letter 16. Often quoted as fortes fortuna juvat. The motto of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment of Denmark. fortes in fide: strong in faith: a common motto fortis cadere, cedere ...