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An F-35B Lightning II sits as the sun sets on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 10, 2015. The aircraft is participating in Exercise Steel Knight, an integrated live-fire exercise with the 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Cameron Storm

Lightning at Sunset

An F-35B Lightning II sits as the sun sets on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 10, 2015. The aircraft is participating in Exercise Steel Knight, an integrated live-fire exercise with the 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Cameron Storm

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