HARBOR, Wash. (July 25, 2018) A Mark-63 Quickstrike Mine is mounted on a P-3 Orion aircraft in the foreground while Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Cooper Peterson, assigned to the ordnance division of Patrol Squadron (VP) 40, communicates with aircrew during preflight. The “Fighting Marlins” of VP-40 are slated to be the last active duty squadron to transition from the P-3 Orion to the P-8 Poseidon. Over the next several months VP-40 will be completing the last inter-deployment readiness cycle of an active duty P-3 squadron.

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