An F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, performs a conventional take-off at the Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field during Exercise Steel Knight 2016 aboard the Combat Center, Dec. 11, 2015. This year’s iteration of Exercise Steel Knight works to advance 1st Marine Division’s warfighting capabilities, to include interoperability between the ground and air forces and integration of the F-35B. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Levi Schultz/Released) - An F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, performs a conventional take-off at the Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field during Exercise Steel Knight 2016 aboard the Combat Center, Dec. 11, 2015. This year’s iteration of Exercise Steel Knight works to advance 1st Marine Division’s warfighting capabilities, to include interoperability between the ground and air forces and integration of the F-35B. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Levi Schultz/Released)
Maj. Gen. Michael A. Rocco, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing commanding general, flew into the Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., via UH-1Y Huey helicopter, Jan. 27, 2015. Rocco visited the Marines of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 before heading to Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Medina Ayala-Lo/Released) - Maj. Gen. Michael A. Rocco, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing commanding general, flew into the Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., via UH-1Y Huey helicopter, Jan. 27, 2015. Rocco visited the Marines of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 before heading to Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Medina Ayala-Lo/Released)