The Defense Department on Friday identified the service member killed Oct. 20 in northern Iraq as Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason C. Finan. Finan, 34, of Anaheim, Calif., was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three, according to a DOD statement. Finan was killed in an improvised explosive device blast, though the Pentagon did not provide any more details into the incident or a more specific location.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
