An Air Force general passed out while briefing reporters on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program on Tuesday.
Maj. Gen. James Martin, deputy assistant Air Force secretary for budget, slowly dipped toward the podium while his colleague, Air Force Deputy for Budget Carolyn Gleason, was answering a question about the fighter program.
As she and others lowered him to a chair, Gleason quipped “That’s what the F-35 will do to you.”
The Lockheed Martin F-35 is the most expensive weapons program in history, involving three services, multiple international partners and several foreign customers. It’s also easily the most heavily covered program, thanks to massive budget overruns, delays and questions over its capability. So yeah, it’s stressful.
“He kept threatening to pull a hammy,” Gleason said to the reporters. “I didn’t think he really meant it.”
Martin was able to walk out of the room and Gleason continued the briefing. Defense One reporter Marcus Weisgerber later tweeted out the Martin was OK.
Pentagon official says Maj. Gen. James Martin is awake and talking. Will get taken to Pentagon medical clinic to get checked out
— Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) February 9, 2016
