Air Commodore Harvey Smyth, left, meets with Lt. Cmdr. Beth Kitchen during a tour of Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, June 16. The tour familiarized United Kingdom officers with the integrated F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Smyth is the lightning force commander, responsible for the entire F-35 program in the Royal Air Force. Kitchen is the U.K. senior engineering officer at VMFAT-501, Marine Aircraft Group 31.