Interesting article in this month's Proceedings has this to say:
http://www.usni.org/proceedings/arti...o02Stone-2.htm
The Navy's senior leaders proudly assert that "naval aviation allows us
to take credible combat power across the globe without a permission
slip."23 This may once have been true, but the all-Hornet air wing is
sorely taxed to take its combat power further than 150 miles from the
nearest blue water. Except for small strikes, this capability, once
available to a carrier air wing with organic, dedicated tankers, now
exists only when the Navy has Air Force tanker support, which requires
permission from a host country.