According to an Associated Press report from a Colombia Herald newspaper article online , the military plans to put 400 of the Marine Corps' new vertical take-off F-35B fighter jets at four installations in North and South Carolina, California and Arizona.
Navy documents released Thursday by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's office say that up to 128 of the stealthy futuristic jets will be based in Cherry Point, N.C., and 88 aircraft and a training unit will go to Beaufort, S.C. Some 96 jets will be based at Miramar, Calif., and 88 will go to Yuma, Ariz.
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