F35 Update

 Victor works for the Navy, as a civilian, leading a public affairs team here at PAX-NAS (Patuxent Naval Air Station). One large aspect of his job is coordinating public affairs for the F35 operation. The F35 is the marine version of the joint strike fighter (a state of the art fighter plane).  Today was a big day for Victor as the marine corp commandant General James F. Amos plus a large team of national media spent the day at PAX-NAS (with Victor).  The goal of the visit was to reassure the media and leaders that, while the F35 development process is significantly behind schedule significant process has been made.

This is important because the F35 program was issued a "warning" by past secretary of defense, Robert Gates threatening that if significant progress isn't made in the near future funding for the program will be cut.

As part of the program today media was allowed, for the first time, to capture a test flight of the F35.  Below is a video from fox news summarizing the event today....

F35 Test Flight 

The pilot in that demonstration is from Cedarburg, Wisconsin. 

On a side note: There were supposed to be four state senators present as well but they were stuck on Capitol Hill fighting about the budget! It will be interesting to see how they resolve that problem.  I'd have to say major budget cuts could greatly affect my life personally as we are double federal employees (Navy and civilian).  That being said I find it disgusting the the government has no interest in balancing the budget! C'mon people! 

What do you think?