The Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley told lawmakers on Mar. 23 that the U.S. Marine Corps is on schedule to deploy the F-35B to MCAS Iwakuni in January 2017.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
U.S. Forces Japan spokesman Lt. Col. Kenneth Hoffman said in an email that swapping out the F/A-18 with the F-35 is being done in close coordination with the government of Japan.