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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Military gets first F-35 operational squadron
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
The Defense Department is setting up its first operational squadron of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, the supersonic stealth aircraft intended to replace at least seven types of military aircraft flown by the United States and its allies.
Despite long-standing turbulence over the program — including sniping over its price tag, time line and ongoing technological development — the Marine Corps on Tuesday will redesignate a Hornet F/A-18 fighter jet squadron in Yuma as Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121.
The F-35 squadron will be the Pentagon’s first intended to eventually deploy in combat. Its inaugural jet, a B version designed for the Marine Corps to take off on short runways and land vertically like a helicopter, arrived Friday at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
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