USMC F-35 FLIES OVER WHITE HOUSE ⋆ ☆☆☆

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda took time away from their talks last week to watch an F-35 fighter jet fly over the White House. The two were joined by their wives to watch the fly-over. The F-35 pilot started the fly-over with a fast pass and ended it with two slow passes, to give President Trump and President President Duda a good view on the F-35.

YouTube player — President Trump and President Duda of Poland – and their wives – watching the F-35 making a fly-over at the White House last week. Originally the White House said 2 F-35s would make the flight over the White House. **Instead only 1 F-35 flew over**
**Video:** **VOA News** **on YouTube**

An U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II – from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 (VMFAT-501), based at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Beaufort, S.C. – flew over the White House on June 12, 2019, to honor President Duda of the Republic of Poland.

Trump said he was considering moving about 2,000 additional U.S. troops into Poland from Germany or elsewhere in Europe earlier.

**The F-35B is the Vertical Take Off and landing (VTOL) variant of the F-35, in service with the USMC. In this photo** U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Joseph Bachmann – Commanding Officer of VMFAT-501, MCAS Beaufort – lands the first F-35B Lightning II on July 17, 2014. The arrival of the F-35B marks the official homecoming of the Warlords to MCAS Beaufort.
**Photo: Cpl. Aneshea S. Yee / USMC**

Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 (VMFAT-501) is a training squadron in the USMC, which consists of 20 F-35B Lightning II aircraft and serves as the Fleet Replacement Squadron. The VMFAT-501 squadron is also known as the ‘Warlords’. The squadron is based at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina and falls administratively under Marine Aircraft Group 31 and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. The squadron has assumed the lineage of VMFA-451, which was originally known as the ‘Blue Devils’ and saw action during WWII and Operation Desert Storm. They were decommissioned on January 31, 1997.

(Top image from VOA News video on YouTube)