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The U.S. Marine Corps has declared the F-35B operational on the last day of July. VMFA-121 is the first unit in the world to have achieved Initial Operational Capability with the stealth fighter.
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The U.S. Marine Corps will fly its last CH-46 flight at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia on Aug. 1.
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Bloomberg has obtained a memo written by Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Michael Gilmore, in which he criticized the poor reliability of the F-35B during its operational testing on board USS Wasp.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has filed all the necessary paperwork to declare Initial Operational Capability for the F-35B, Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, deputy commandant for Marine aviation, told reporters.
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A VMA-214 AV-8B crashed into a neighborhood in Imperial, California last year after an oil leak lead to an on board fire.
By: Lance Cpl. W. Zach Griffith [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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