03/08/2017
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"VMFA-121 will move to Iwakuni, Japan next year and deploy aboard ship in 2018, marking the first O-CONUS and shipboard deployments of the F-35 respectively."
"The President's budget request is approximately $17 billion less than what last year's budget declared was required."
"In your judgment, are your air-launched munitions inventories sufficient to support current operations and the Defense Strategic Guidance writ large?"
"The follow-on modernization for the F-35 is estimated to cost the DOD nearly $3 billion over the next 6 years alone."