{"id":129413,"date":"2024-09-19T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/vmfa-251-1st-marine-corps-sqadron-east-coast-f-35c-lightning-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:00:29","slug":"vmfa-251-becomes-1st-marine-corps-squadron-on-east-coast-to-get-f-35c-lightning-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=129413","title":{"rendered":"VMFA-251 Becomes 1st Marine Corps Squadron On East Coast To Get F-35C Lightning II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"549970\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Marine Corps<\/span><\/span> squadron stationed on the East Coast received its first F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters. The squadron is based at Cherry Point, North Carolina. The advanced F-35C fighter jets were delivered on September 17 to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 251, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW). While the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> is built by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60498\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-martin\/\"  >Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/span>,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032489\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/beyond-lockheed-martin-5-major-contractors-f-35-lightning-ii-program\/\" >it is a massive international program that includes the input of many major defense contractors<\/a><\/span> (including British and other European defense contractors). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines are gradually taking possession of more and more of their 67 planned F-35Cs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,2026,628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fifth-generation-fighter","category-fighter-jets","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129414,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129413\/revisions\/129414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}