Weathering a Perfect Storm: Outgoing 3-Star Assesses Marine Aviation
Military.com | 3 Jul 2017 | by Hope Hodge Seck
Lt. Gen. Jon "Dog" Davis will retire this month after presiding over one of the bumpiest eras of Marine Corps aviation in recent history. During his tenure as the Corps' deputy commandant of aviation, which began in June 2014, the enterprise began to experience grave consequences due to a decade-and-a-half of combat. Hard-flown airframes received emergency overhaul, pilot flight hours plunged as flyable aircraft became scarce due to maintenance needs and parts shortages, and officials in 2016 resorted to pulling aircraft from the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona to accomplish vital missions.
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