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Volume 63, Number 10 Serving the community of Edwards Air Force Base, California September 3, 2015

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Staff Sgt. Brittany Lehr, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
(F-35), shows Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan a maintenance
program used for work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Bogdan
visited the Integrated Test Force to receive a 461st Flight
Test Squadron test progress update and discuss future test
events at Edwards AFB. He also held an all hands meeting
with the ITF to provide a holistic F-35 program status and
congratulate the work force on the U.S. Marine Corps’ Initial
Operational Capability completion of the F-35B short takeoff
and landing variant. The Marine Corps announced their IOC
achievement July 31. A celebration was held with cake after
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Defense’s agency responsible for developing and acquiring the
F-35A/B/C, the next-generation strike aircraft weapon system
for the Navy, Air Force, Marines and many allied nations.

Lockheed Martin photograph by Darin Russell

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