Title:

 USS Wasp completes historic patrol in Indo-Pacific

Author:

USS Wasp Public Affairs

Source:

USS Wasp Public Affairs

Date:

 April 26, 2018

Description:

he amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) returned to Sasebo, April 26, after nearly two months of operations in the Indo-Pacific with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Wasp successfully embarked, maintained, and supported near-daily flight operations of the F-35B Lightning II in that span, part of a first-ever operational deployment of the U.S. Marine Corp’s fifth-generation stealth jet.