VMFA-121 will only bring 10 F-35Bs to Iwakuni in 2017

Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, the USMC’s Deputy Commandant for Aviation, revealed that only F-35Bs with VMFA-121 will be deployed to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan in 2017.

By Lance Cpl. Raquel Barraza (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1004233) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The other six aircraft will go out to sea on board a LHD.

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