AN AIR cadet squadron is saying goodbye after being made to disband 65 years after it was formed.
Officially, the No 768 (Hayes School) Air Training Corps squadron is disbanding because the group's headquarters on the Hayes School site in West Common Road, Hayes, is very small.
But the group's commanding officer Flight Lieutenant James Dyer, does not believe this is the whole truth.
He believes the Air Cadets want the squadron to close because it is only open to the school's pupils rather than to everyone.
The group marched at its last Remembrance Parade last Sunday.
Flt Lt Dyer said: "It's been part of my life since I was 13-years-old. We're now in the part when we're doing our last of everything."
The squadron was formed in February 1941 at Brockley County Grammar School.
It transferred to Hayes School in September 1981 when the Brockley school closed.
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