He's leaving office and all he talks is F-35!

Amos has less than 24 hours  left in the Commandant's chair and I've been scouring the internet to get some last words from him....a statement on his tenure as Commandant of the world's greatest fighting force.

All I found is this from Reuters.

"It's too soon to flinch," outgoing Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos said in an interview at his Pentagon office, when asked if the Marines would miss their target date for declaring an initial operational capability (IOC).
"It's a tight timeline, but I think it's doable," he said. "But I'm a realist. If it's August, it's August. ... There is some risk in a mid-summer IOC but we've known that all along."
The Marine Corps has set July 2015 as the date by which it wants to be able to use the stealthy new jets in combat, followed by the Air Force in 2016 and the Navy in 2018 or 2019.
The Marines are slated to buy 340 F-35 B-models, which can take off from shorter runways and land vertically, plus 80 F-35 C-models, which have longer wings and a tailhook that allows them to land on aircraft carriers.

Amos said he remained bullish about the $399 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program despite a June 23 engine failure that grounded the F-35 fleet for several weeks this summer and has raised questions about the Marines' July target date.

Just plain wow.

His whole focus seems to be the F-35 and nothing else.  The little bullshit "State of the Marine Corps" vids that are more cheerleading sessions than a serious look at where we're at just doesn't cut it.

Hopefully Dunford will bring a back to basics movement across the board when he takes the reins.  We'll see what we'll see,  but its obvious that a Commandant from the Wing only cared about the Wing.