There's no doubt about if; if one is interested in the subject, it's
not boring!! g

Mike

wrote:
Actually, some things particularly draw my attention:

1) One thing especially nice in the TACAIR Integration Plan is the fact
it generates a lot of interesting moves (VFA-81 to CVW-11, VFA-94 to
UDP, F/A-18C's seen in VMFA(AW)-332) - with the third Navy squadron to
be deactivated still not revealed.

2) I wonder if F/A-18s from squadrons like VMFA-122 or VMFA-212 ever
touch the deck of a carrier (the former may gonna deploy with CVW-3
soon, the latter has a chance to merge with CVW-5 assets when they meet
at Iwakuni someday).

3) A separate question is which squadrons finally go to Cherry Point,
and if another F/A-18C squadron takes place of deactivated VFA-82 at
Beaufort.

Of course, all that for the moment is a matter of horse-race-like
speculations;-)

Best regards,
Jacek
(superhornet at go 2 dot pl)


Mike Weeks wrote:
wrote:
Mike Weeks wrote:

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

Even less assets now, when two VMFA(AW) squadrons are expected to be
practically gone soon...

Actual VMFA(AW) outfits -- flying the D Hornet that is, were not part
of TAIP. Of course if that means standard VMFAs will have to fill the
resulting gap ... g

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

For me the status of CVW-17 now seems to be unclear. Maybe it will
become a kind of "warehouse of spare Hornet squadrons" for other air
wings - with reference to gossips about additional Super Hornet
squadrons to compensate the growing shortage of F/A-18C/A+ airframes...

Officially, CVW-17 (short squadrons and all) is attached to George
Washington. Watch to see how it changes when GW starts to workup
seriously for deployment -- then the picture will be clearer. As of
now, as I understand it, there's to be no axing of a CVW even when JFK
goes away.