A military working dog deployed from Tinker AFB, Okla., to Iraq was killed in action Jan. 19 during a patrol in Baghdad. Marco, a 7 year-old Belgian Malinois, was on weapons and explosives detection patrol with his handler, SSgt. Alissa Jones, deployed from the 72nd Security Forces Squadron at Tinker, when he died subsequent to electrical shock. It was Marco’s third tour in Iraq.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket—sidelined since February after an anomaly—is scheduled to return to flight Nov. 13 to launch a batch of satellites for Amazon’s high-speed internet constellation in low-Earth orbit.