The Air Force is allowing the intelligence unit that enabled Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira to leak some of the government’s most closely held secrets to an online forum for months to resume its mission, the service announced Friday.
“The 102d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group (ISRG) will resume its intelligence mission in support of Distributed Ground Station-Massachusetts on 1 June 2024 following approval by the commander of Air Combat Command,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said in a statement.
Teixeira agreed in March to plead guilty to sharing classified information and faces up to 16 years in prison. The Air Force also went after his unit, where it found that airmen who worked around Teixeira and supervised him were derelict in their duties.
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The Massachusetts National Guard, in its own statement released Friday, said that its “airmen look forward to returning to serving, protecting, and defending our nation and our state.”
In April 2023, just days after Teixeira was arrested for leaking dozens of documents that included classified information about the war in Ukraine and U.S. relations with allies to an online platform used by gamers, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall took the 102nd off its mission and ordered the inspector general to look into the unit’s compliance with…
