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.”
President Donald Trump on July 4 signed into law $150 billion in defense funds as part of the tax-and-spending package known as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” after congressional Republicans approved the legislation in narrow, drawn-out votes earlier this week.
