RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has a summer of excitement planned, with a series of new exhibitions, events and programs in this year’s lineup. According to ...

Cmdr. Kenneth Sanchez, the Maintenance Officer for CVW-1. However, many of the Marines of VMFA-251 credit teamwork as being the driving force that earned them the award. "If we don't work as a ...

VMFA-251, known as the "Thunderbolts" or "T-Bolts," was previously deactivated during a ceremony on April 23, 2020, at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina, after returning from deployment in 2020 in ...

squadrons and eight F-35C VMFA squadrons. Before, the Corps had planned to support only four F-35C squadrons, VMFAs 314, 311, 251, and 115. With the change in the procurement profile, four other ...

Take a look at the specially painted aircraft of VMFA-251, the first East Coast operational unit of the U.S. Marine Corps to receive the F-35C. On Sept. 17, 2024, the U.S. Marine Corps’ Marine ...

Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 251, or VMFA-251, received its first F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in mid-September before the unit officially reactivated in a ceremony at Marine Corps Air ...

VMFA-251 has received its first F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter, like the VMFA 311-assigned aircraft seen here. (Lance Cpl. Jennifer Sanchez/Marine Corps) The Marines have reactivated a ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 251, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), reactivated during a ceremony on Thursday ...

VMFA 251 also fought in the Korean War and flew NATO no-fly zone enforcement sorties over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. “The T-Bolts are humbled and honored for the privilege of carrying ...

VMFA 251, based at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, is the first unit on the East Coast to receive this variant. F-35C Enhances Marine Fighter Squadron Capabilities in Historic Transition (USAF) The ...