The Marine Corps will perform its first-ever operational readiness inspection on the service's Joint Strike Fighter operational squadron before the jet is declared wartime-ready, according to a service official. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, deputy commandant for aviation, told reporters at a May 19 breakfast in Washington that when he was a young officer he did an exchange with the British military in the late 1980s where he saw ORIs being employed by NATO, and decided it would be a valuable...
