Woody Beal wrote:

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The USMC hates the Super Hornet as much as it hated the Tomcat.

Not a question of hate (as long as they're not forced to take any), more
like they have no need of them for their missions. They have no wish to
throw money away on F-18E/Fs, when they want to replace both AV-8Bs and
F-18s with F-35Bs.

Guy