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The Transition Plan for the Hornets
There are plans to use both new engraids as well as what I will call Hornet pilots with limited experience. There's a certain advantage if we have a minimum of 200 hours of fast jet time for a student going into the F35 training program at Luke Air Force Base. The key thing here is through the transition we have to continue to meet obviously our NORAD mandates for the defense of North America. So you have to be able to keep that going with the legacy Hornet fleet as well as building up capability on the F35 until you can do logical handoffs of those capabilities.