New year, new deployment for the F-35! January 3 marked the beginning of the first carrier deployment for Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 “Black Knights” aboard USS Abraham Lincoln. It is also the first carrier deployment for a Marine Corps F-35C fighter squadron, although the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-based squadron is only the second F-35C squadron to deploy with an aircraft carrier — Navy Fighter Attack Squadron 147 “Argonauts” deployed on USS Carl Vinson in August 2021. Read more about the “newest chapter in the Marine Corps’ long history of naval integration.”