Probably because it 'were'?
At least a Lightning saved from the scrap heap parked outside the sqn would be better than an old cannon, or a stuffed horse or whatever else the pongos might wish for...
Fair enough if it isn't the s
tation gate guardian, I'll concede.
But when the E3 was first at Waddo, it was cetainly true that a certain knob announced that the station 'was now an air defence station' and tried to do away with all traces of the V-force era.....
And my apologies to OC 5 Sqn for being rather rude....
