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.”
Three of four congressional committees with influence over defense policy have voted to change the official name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War—but final approval of the Pentagon rebrand is months away and not yet assured.