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(a) 美军透露:五代战机F-35将按时部署日本. VOA Chinese, July 30, 2016. http://www.voachinese.com/a/us-japan-f35s-20160729/3440658.html
(b) Jeff Schogol, Top Marine Aviator: F-35B Is Ready for War. Marine Times, July 29, 2016 www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/m ... ready-war/87723280/
("Lt Gen Jon Davis, deputy commandant for aviation * * * said at an event Friday at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington, DC * * * The Marine Corps’ first F-35B squadron is expected to arrive in Japan in January and then go to sea [stationed on a US aircraft carrier]with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in the spring of 2018, he said. The service’s second F-35B squadron is expected to go to sea in the summer of 2018")