Details Emerge About First U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Combat Mission in History.
Oct 03 2018 - 10 Comments
By Tom Demerly
Successful Strike Honored Marine Pilot Killed in Combat in September 2012.
New details and photos have emerged from last week’s first-ever combat mission by a U.S. military F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
The mission, flown by an undisclosed number of U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) variant aircraft, took place in the early morning hours of Thursday, September 27, 2018 and struck insurgent targets in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 (VMFA-211) assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit flew the strike mission.
