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The Marines Are Running Out of Fighter Jets

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The service is running short of planes to fight wars and train its pilots. But the problem is one of the Marines’ own making.

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The U.S. Marine Corps has got an air force problem. Its current fleet of fighter jets, purchased from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, is in poor repair.

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