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Friday, February 6, 2015 Vol. 50, No. 5 Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.
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Fightertown leadership speaks to Sun City Page 11
MSG: are you qualified? Page 11
Building international
relationships
Photo by Pfc. Kayla Douglass
Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 welcomes the first United Kingdom F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Feb. 3. The jet was flown by U.K. Royal Air Force pilot Hugh Nichols, the UK senior national representative from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
First international F-35B arrives aboard Fightertown Pfc. Samantha Torres Staff Writer
Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 welcomed the first United Kingdom F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aboard Marine Corps Air Station
Beaufort, Feb. 3. The jet was flown by U.K. Royal Air Force pilot Hugh Nichols, the U.K. senior national representative from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. “It’s big for the Air Station, the town, and the pilot training cen-
ter,” said Lt. Col. Joseph T. Bachmann, the commanding officer of VMFAT-501. The jet is one of only three British F-35B aircraft and is assigned to VMFAT-501. The international cooperation between VMFAT-501 and the
RAF has a huge impact on the Air Station and the Marine Corps as a whole. “This is another example of the Marine Corps and the U.K. working hand in hand to achieve great things with the F-35,” said Bachmann.
The F-35B will replace the Marine Corps’ aging legacy tactical fleet. In addition to replacing the F/A-18A-D Hornet, the F-35B will replace the AV-8B Harrier and see international, page
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Elliott Elementary students spend day with Warlords Pfc. Jonah V. Lovy Staff Writer
Education is critical to developing intelligent, informed members of society. Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort contributes to education by reaching out to the local community and schools through career days, school visits and tours. Air Station Marines provide interactive examples of their work, which usually falls into science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics. Children from Elliott Elementary School, located in Laurel Bay, visited Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 aboard MCAS Beaufort, Jan. 29, to strengthen their understanding of practical use of the knowledge they are learning. VMFAT-501 conducts training and operations on the F-35B Lightning II aboard see
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Unit Energy Program coming to Fightertown Pfc. Jonah V. Lovy Staff Writer
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is gearing up for new energy saving policies in 2015. The new Unit Energy Program will assign a Unit Energy Manager to each unit on base starting this June. UEMs will be assigned a number of buildings to inspect on a regular basis, said Neil Tisdale, utilities director and energies manager for Public Works aboard Fightertown. “They will conduct walk-throughs of their building to see if there are any improvements that can be made in regards to energy,” said Tisdale. “[Serving as a UEM] would be a collateral duty and there will be training required.” Energy conservation and energy management are issues of extreme imporsee
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