In recent days, the United States has increased its military aviation presence in the Caribbean, with multiple AV-8B Harrier ...
The AV-8B Harrier is now nearly retired—but its mission profile will live on in the F-35B Lightning II, which shares many of the same capabilities.
Today, only one Marine squadron still flies the Harrier II: VMA-223 "Bulldogs," a unit created in 1942 during World War II and based at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. That squadron has been flying ...