退役 AV-8B 鹞式战机在海军学院纪念体育场永久陈列，纪念逾百年海军陆战队航空兵传统
美国海军学院与美国海军陆战队 11 月 8 日在马里兰州 Annapolis 的海军-海军陆战队纪念体育场（Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium），为一架退役的 AV-8B 鹞式（Harrier）攻击机静态展示举行正式揭幕仪式。这架战机将永久陈列于此，纪念一个多世纪以来在和平与战争时期担任海军陆战队飞行员的海军学院毕业生。
海军陆战队助理司令 Bradford Gering 上将、海军陆战队多位副司令与国防情报局局长 James Adams III 中将等人出席。Gering 是现役资历最深的鹞式飞行员，他说，这次揭幕既是向研制这款战机的团队、驾驶它的飞行员、维护它的机务与装弹它的军械人员致敬，也象征着海军陆战队航空兵存在的理由、文化与人。
仪式上，来自北卡罗来纳州 Cherry Point 海军陆战队航空站的第 231 海军陆战队战斗攻击中队（VMFA-231）的 F-35B 战机进行了精确飞越。当天晚些时候，在海军对阵 Temple 的橄榄球比赛期间，UH-1Y、MV-22B 与 CH-53E 等多型海军陆战队飞机也进行了飞越表演。
海军学院第 66 任院长 Michael J. Borgschulte 中将说，这架鹞式从机头到机尾讲述着海军陆战队航空兵的全部故事：1912 年，Alfred A. Cunningham 中尉在学院对岸 Severn 河边的 Greenbury Point 成为海军陆战队第一位飞行员，海军陆战队航空兵就此诞生；114 年后，这段传统在它开始的地方回到了原点。
（来源：美国海军学院）
Retired AV-8B Harrier Dedicated as Permanent Display at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
The U.S. Naval Academy and the United States Marine Corps formally dedicated a decommissioned AV-8B Harrier static display at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland, on November 8. The aircraft will remain on permanent display, honoring more than a century of Naval Academy graduates who served as Marine Corps aviators in peacetime and conflict across the globe.
Senior Marine Corps leaders, including Assistant Commandant Gen. Bradford Gering, several deputy commandants, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams III, attended. Gering, the senior Harrier pilot on active duty, said the dedication was a tribute to the enterprise that developed the aircraft, the pilots who flew it, the maintainers who kept it flying, the ordnance crews who armed it, and the leaders who sent it into the fight, and that it symbolizes the reason for Marine aviation, its culture, and its people.
The ceremony featured a precision flyover of F-35B aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 231 (VMFA-231), based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. Later that day, during the Navy vs. Temple football game, UH-1Y, MV-22B, and CH-53E aircraft also conducted flyovers.
Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte, the Naval Academy's 66th Superintendent, said the Harrier tells the story of all of Marine Corps aviation from nose to tail: Marine aviation began in 1912 at Greenbury Point, across the Severn River from the Academy, when 1st Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham became the first Marine aviator, and 114 years later that heritage has come full circle where it began.
(Source: U.S. Naval Academy)
来源：美国海军学院
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图片来源：图：一架美国海军陆战队 AV-8B 鹞式 II 攻击机静态展示，资料图，非揭幕现场。美国海军陆战队照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II on static display, file photo, not the dedication ceremony. U.S. Marine Corps photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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