F-35 First Ever Hot Load

Aviation ordnance crew members with Marine Aviation and Weapons Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) conduct the first ever hot load on the F-35B at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, with inert Guided Bomb Units-12 and aerial laser-guided bombs. In doing so, the Marine Corps is the first service to validate hot loading any variant of the F-35. Once the F-35B hot load process is validated, the procedures will be published and distributed throughout the Marine Corps, at which point training will be conducte