The 56th Rescue Squadron, which moved last year from NAS Keflavik, Iceland to RAF Lakenheath, just completed a unit compliance inspection with flying colors, reports SSgt. Nathan Gallahan. They still call the move challenging, for as TSgt. Chris Sweetin, head NCO of the operations flight, says, “We pretty much had to rewrite everything; we incorporated what we could from Iceland but about 80 to 90 percent had to be rewritten.”
The Pentagon did not include any funding for the the E-7A Wedgetail in its 2027 budget request, setting up another round in its fight with Congress over the future of the Boeing-built successor to the E-3 Sentry Airborne Early Warning and Control jet.