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Air Guard’s RC-26 reconnaissance planes head into retirement
The Air Force argued that maintaining the three-decade-old planes cost $30 million each year.
Inside secret Syria talks aimed at freeing Marine vet Austin Tice and other US hostages
Marine veteran and freelance journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria since August 2012.
Report: Spy plane monitored protest where the head of the California National Guard lives
Maj. Gen. David Baldwin said the fact that he lives in El Dorado Hills had nothing to do with the California National Guard sending the RC-26B to monitor peaceful protests there in June.
IG: Air Guard intel planes surveilled seven George Floyd protests without proper authorization
It was the first time the RC-26 had been used to observe civil disturbances in support of law enforcement, the IG said.
This week in Congress: Military work before summer vacation
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Aug. 3, 2020.
IG investigating Air National Guard’s use of recon planes to monitor protests
The director of the Air National Guard last week said it has used some RC-26 aircraft to help law enforcement monitor protests.
Thousands of Marines with 26th MEU move into the Red Sea
By entering into the Red Sea, the MEU has officially entered the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.
By Philip Athey
Thousands of Marines with 26th MEU end exercise, head to Mediterranean Sea amid rising Middle East tensions
The U.S. has ended a planned exercise with the Moroccan military to send roughly 2,500 Marines into the Mediterranean Sea.
By Philip Athey
Here’s why State Department agents joined on with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
Having the Department of State Liaison Element "in the MEU’s ‘hip pocket’ rapidly expedites planning and coordination in a crisis moment."
By Philip Athey
A warship with Marines loitered for a month on alert in the Red Sea during US embassy move to Jerusalem
Marines were on high alert and ready to provide quick reaction forces in the event of violence stemming from the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem.
By Shawn Snow