Senior Marine Corps leaders hope the entry of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighterinto the fleet will change not just the way Marines fly, but the way the force fights as a whole.
And they’re planning to test out ways the fifth-generation jet can transform the force by pairing it with an unlikely partner: ground-pounders from the Corps’ experimental infantry battalion.
The unit, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, California, will team up with Yuma-based Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 for a variety of training evolutions before the units deploy together to the Pacific with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit next year..”
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