DEPLOYMENT NEWS

P-3C BuNo 162998 receives attention from maintenance personnel, while deployed in support of Operation ‘Inherent Resolve’. Patrol squadron VP-46 ‘Grey Knights’ recently completed its final deployment with the Orion and has begun converting to the P-8A Poseidon. US Navy/MC3 Zachary Dalton Final Orion deployment under way Patrol squadron VP-40 began the US Navy’s final P-3C deployment on March 25 when its first Orions departed NAS Whidbey Island en route to locations in the 5th and 7th US Fleets’ areas of