The Ultimate Test: 'The promise of the V-22' rides on Marine squadron's Iraq deployment.

The article focuses on the deployment of U.S. Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (VMM-263) on assault ship USS Wasp for a seven-month operation in Iraq. It mentions that as an operational readiness for Iraq operation, the VMM-263 accepted 10 new MV-22V Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and underwent an aggressive training schedule. It was accounted that the squadron made 2,000-mile training deployments to demonstrate the V-22s long-distance deployment capacity using in-fight refueling.