If any of you know about the 46 understand the main roles that this aircraft was assigned was troop insertion and medivacs. The main point that should silence anybody in regard to the validity of service of the V22, is the great impact this aircraft has on the golden hour hour for wounded personnel. There are many areas that this aircraft helps area commanders is first the increased area that he can control due to increased range. Second it allows for freedom of assets due to its increased speed its able to refuel at the same time as an F/A-18 therefore There's the removal of transition time between refueling and the ability to few two different aircraft that may have entered a critical level while waiting for deconfliction. Those who say that the USAF should have had the lead on the aircraft might be suprised to learned that they surrendered lead to the Marines realizing that this was an aircraft suited to them. The airforce has stayed on through all aspects of test and eval. Of the aircraft to include testing at Nellis airforce base. Its easy to cast stones based on info spoon fed to you. It's a lot harder to research and form an intelligent opinion.