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Month: January 2020

Modly: “we will all be dead” when the USN reach a force level of 12 aircraft carriers

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Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas B. Modly told the crowd at a session organized by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments that the service will not be able to reach a force level of 12 aircraft carriers until 2065.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) and USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) to Naval Station Norfolk on 22 September 2017 (170922-N-GK939-052)
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lindsay A. Preston [Public domain]

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CO of VMFA-225 fired for making low-level pass during sundown ceremony

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The commanding officer of VMFA-225 has been fired for making a low-level flypast during the unit’s sundown ceremony of the F/A-18D on Jan. 23.

Marines and families of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 225, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, watch as the F/A-18 Hornet and F-35 Lightning II fly overhead during a Sundown Ceremony on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Jan. 25, 2019. VMFA-225 held the Sundown Ceremony to retire the Hornet from their ranks and introduce the F-35B Lightning II as their new aircraft. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Levi J. Guerra)

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The first F-35 pilot to clock 1,000 hours on the jet

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Lt. Col. Brian W. Bann, a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B pilot, is the first person to clock more than 1,000 hours on the jet.

Maj. Brian Bann, F-35 pilot, prepares to exit a Norwegian F-35 Lightning II, June 29, 2017 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Maj. Bann piloted Norway’s seventh F-35 to Luke. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jensen Stidham)

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