The F-35 may turn out to be okay in the end (I have my doubts — the software problems alone are insane), but we didn't freaking need it to begin with.

If it was up to me, I'd outright nix the entire Air Force and roll the relevant bits back into the Army where they belong. That's been necessary since the fighter fags took the branch over and lost sight of how wars are actually won: with boots on the ground. I'd nix the ground element of the USMC entirely too. Marines are for shipboard actions. If we need to seriously invade a country by ship, the Army is going to have to do most of it anyway because there just aren't that many Marines. So let's stop maintaining four different sets of materiel and simplify our logistics enormously.

I'm not gonna hold my breath on anything sensible happening in the military, though. There's a reason I've been advising people not to join since I got out.