Final Middle East deployment for US Navy Orion

US NAVY P-3C 162776 of Patrol Squadron 40 (VP-40) ‘Fighting Marlins’ arrives at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk on the morning of March 27, using the callsign ‘VVQE06’. The unit was heading to an operational deployment at Isa Air Base in Bahrain – the last ever rotation for the US Navy Orion in this theatre. The squadron began its latest in-theatre mission on February 19 and took over the Middle East commitment from VP-46. The ‘Fighting Marlins’, based at NAS Whidbey Island,