Corps to activate Joint Strike Fighter training squadron in April
US Marine Corps News
3/18/2010
By 2nd MAW Public Affairs, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
Media are invited to the reactivation ceremony of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 451 at the Naval Aviation Museum, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Thursday, April 1 at 2 p.m.
Following a 13-year retirement, VMFA-451 will be reactivated in order to be re-designated as Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 in a ceremony scheduled for Friday, Apr. 2 at 10 a.m., aboard Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., at the Joint Integrated Training Center.
VMFAT-501 will stand up as the Marine Corps’ first F-35B Lightning II training squadron.
Interested media should contact Major Aisha Bakkar or Mike Barton at (252) 466-4241, or e-mail aisha.bakkar@usmc.mil by March 25 for more information or to arrange entry to the reactivation and re-designation ceremonies being held at Naval Air Station Pensacola and Eglin AFB respectively.
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