Marine Corps Capt. Jacob Rea, an F-35B Lightning II pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, does preflight checks while conducting rolling vertical landing training during Realistic Urban Training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, June 9, 2022. VMFA-122 conducted rolling vertical landing training to enhance the squadron’s ability to recover F-35Bs vertically, enabling the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s expeditionary nature of providing aviation based fires using armed forward arming and refueling sites from expeditionary adva


Marine Corps Capt. Jacob Rea, an F-35B Lightning II pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, does preflight checks while conducting rolling vertical landing training during Realistic Urban Training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, June 9, 2022. VMFA-122 conducted rolling vertical landing training to enhance the squadron’s ability to recover F-35Bs vertically, enabling the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s expeditionary nature of providing aviation based fires using armed forward arming and refueling sites from expeditionary advanced bases and in austere environments.


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