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Air Force

Amos Eyes End of F-35 STOVL’s Probation

Julie Samuel

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

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The Marine Corps’ top officer said yesterday he remains hopeful his service’s variant of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can be removed from a two-year probation, possibly after shipboard testing later this year. Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos said he thinks “it’s important” that the F-35B, his service’s short-takeoff/vertical-landing variant of the multi-service F-35, get out of a two-year probationary period called for in the fiscal year 2012 budget request the Pentagon sent Congress in February. “I think…

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Budget

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