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 has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.