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Vice Adm. David Venlet told three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s air-land panel that current problems with the F-35 is not something engineering cannot fix.
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Retired U.S. Marine Corps generals accused Boeing of trying to steer the U.S. Navy away from the F-35 program and start the F/A-XX fighter program.
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Marine Corps Air Station Yuma is on an aggressive schedule to complete facilities to accommadate the first F-35B that will arrive in November or December.
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Washington has told Tokyo that it plans to bring the V-22 to Okinawa as early as July. The original plan was to transfer the aircraft over to Japan in October.
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Maj. J. Eric Grunke, a AV-8B pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps, recalls the mission to rescue a USAF F-15E who had ejected over Libya last year.
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