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Turbine D
Odds are you will be able to. By the time summer rolls around there will be a customized definition of IOC designed to fit wherever the F-35B situation might be. It is known as moving the goal posts. Gen. Bogdan has already accomplished this once on expected F-35 combat capabilities. Stay tuned…
We'll see.
IIRC the first "deployed" squadron will be in Iwakuni Japan (forward deployed is a term of art in the USN for forces based out of the US) and their acid test will of course be: when will your det embark on an amphib and hit the mil exercise and collective training circuit?
Seventh Fleet is dying to know, I suspect.