The Marine Corps will kick off its final operational readiness inspection of the Joint Strike Fighter short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing variant in mid-July before declaring the jet operational, according to a service spokesman. A Marine Corps-led team of F-35 experts will conduct the ORI, which will take about a week to complete, and report findings to the service's deputy commandant for aviation, Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Paul Greenberg wrote in a June 23 email to Inside the Navy . "The commandant of the...
