was formed just after World War I, and it adopted the Harrier jump jet in the 1970s and the second-generation AV-8B Harrier II in the mid-1980s. With VMA-231's rebranding, the unit's pilots will ...

The squadron, identified as the service's oldest flying squadron, was formed just after World War I, and it adopted the Harrier jump jet in the 1970s and the second-generation AV-8B Harrier II in the ...

VMA-223’s lineage stretches back to World War II ... Now, with the arrival of AV-8B Harrier II+ BuNo 164554 at NAS Wildwood, on a base that also trained Corsair pilots during WWII, the legacy ...

On May 13, 2025, a recently retired AV-8B Harrier II+ has officially joined ... On arrival day, VMA-231 pilot Capt. Zach "Yoda" Moore flew the Harrier into Fort Worth, thrilling onlookers with ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has officially graduated its final class of AV-8B Harrier pilots, closing the chapter on decades of iconic vertical takeoff aviation. As the Corps transitions to newer ...

We did C130’s, we did AV-8B’s, we did other types of jets ... put that wide array of skills to the test overseas, as the Gulf War conflict escalated. “We started doing inspections, getting ...

The Pima Air & Space Museum is the new home of a retired and demilitarized U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II+. The light attack jet was inducted into the Tucson, Arizona, museum Friday ...

The AV-8B saw combat action in conflicts like the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Its STOVL (or V/STOL) capability was put to the test flying from unusual and geographically austere environments ...

This study, which builds on previous pilot research conducted by the same team, further validates the link between an imbalance in the gut microbiome and Gulf War illness. Saurabh Chatterjee ...