wrote:
Mike Weeks napisal(a):

No, the USMC F/A-18s will serve both aboard the big decks, and ashore
-- as currently is being done.

As far as I know the Marines now are even reducing, as far as they can,
their contribution to carrier ops - so different than planned single
VMFA for each of ten CVWs in a few years...

This might be "splitting hairs", but from what I can determine, even
when the TAIP was announced & introduced, the Marines didn't actually
have the assets available.

And it's gone downhill from there ... g

The Marines got a real break with the withdraw of JFK (and thusly one
CVW) from active deployment rotation.