The U.S. military’s sole operational F-35 squadron, VMFA-121, is ready to deploy to a war zone with short notice, Lt. Gen. Jon Davis told USNI News in an interview.
By Photo by Staff Sgt Jessica Smith, USMC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“if a contingency arose, and I’ve got an IOC squadron, I could put six or more F-35Bs on the [USS] Wasp and sail into harm’s way and do the job and basically do what our nation needs to do with a fifth-generation aircraft from a seabase, the first one ever.”