Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
[...]
VFC-12 is transitioning to the VFA mission with the arrival of their
F/A-18A+'s.

Seemingly, they would become an extra deployable squadron for the
Atlantic Fleet...

Are they going to be the eighth of UDP squadrons?: three Navy and four
Marine squadrons, as planned, (+ VMFA-212 permanent) are not enough to
support two 6-month rotations at Iwakuni.

Or, may they be used to fill the apppearing gap in CVW-1 or CVW-8?:
CVW-1's VFA-82 was switched to CVW-2 and probably will not return (to
be dectivated after this deployment), CVW-8 will be missing something
in place of VFA-15 (if switched to CVW-1, as intended) or VFA-22 (so
far still in PACFLT).

Best regards,

Jacek Zemlo