The Pentagon released the name of an airman killed in Iraq June 23 from the effects of an improvised explosive device. He was A1C Jason D. Nathan, 22, of Macon, Ga., deployed to Iraq from the 48th Security Forces Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England. A Lakenheath news release notes that, at the time of his death, Nathan was serving as a gunner on a vehicle for a “very difficult Iraqi Police Transition Team mission.”
Northrop Grumman test fired its newest solid rocket motor Dec. 4, part of an internally funded effort to rapidly design and build SRMs using advanced manufacturing techniques.

