Woodward concludes, “It is not the capabilities of the aircraft, it is the quality of the training and the level of maintenance and level of readiness that you keep the aircraft at. You can have fully capable aircraft. You can have a million of those capable aircraft. It is not completely effective if you don’t train to fly and fight that aircraft like you are going into combat, and really exercise all the systems on a complex mission. We see these other countries bragging about how many (aircraft) they have, but no one flies and fights as the Marines or the U.S. Forces, I would say. We challenge the pilots all the time. We are absolutely preparing for the next fight. There is no better friend and no worse enemy than the U.S. Marines!”
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