Making History: U.S. Air Force Pilots Fly F-35Bs Aboard USS America
November 01, 2019
November 01, 2019
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news:
Hundreds of Marines and sailors embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America. Among the sea of naval warriors stood two service members who see the sky as home.
U.S. Air Force Captains Spencer G. Weide and Justin J. Newman, both pilots assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., made history as the first operational Air Force pilots to fly the F-35B Lightning II aboard an . . .
Hundreds of Marines and sailors embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America. Among the sea of naval warriors stood two service members who see the sky as home.
U.S. Air Force Captains Spencer G. Weide and Justin J. Newman, both pilots assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., made history as the first operational Air Force pilots to fly the F-35B Lightning II aboard an . . .