Source: United States Navy
ROYAL AIR FORCE BASE LOSSIEMOUTH, Scotland – Patrol Squadron (VP) 9 “Golden Eagles” held a search and rescue (SAR) UNI-PAC II Air-Drop Survival Kit loading demonstration for the Royal Air Force (RAF) CXX Squadron, April 15, 2020. The VP-9 Aviation Ordnance team went through all the steps teaching the RAF team how to properly load and install the SAR kit on the P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft.
Source: United States Navy
ATLANTIC OCEAN – The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17), part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Readiness Group (IWOARG), conducted a replenishment-at-sea with fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6) and the Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50), April 12, 2021.
Source: United States Navy
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby today declared “the state of our Naval unmanned capabilities is truly unmatched,” and vowed continued support for the nation’s ongoing transition to a hybrid manned-unmanned force in the future.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an indictment Wednesday charging six former employees of a government contractor for their role in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a U.S. government contract to recruit and deploy qualified linguists to Afghanistan where they would provide language services in Dari and Pashto to the U.S. military, including interacting with Afghan civilians and military forces.
Source: United States Department of Justice News
A New York man was sentenced today to life in prison for detonating a bomb in a New York City subway station. He admitted that he conducted the terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.