Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
For the record, I literally just came from from a speech by CMC actual and he spoke about the F-35B program. Bottom line, the program is going forward and it will provide the USMC with important capabilities. The rest is moot.