Why give the Marines Super Hornets when the Navy already has them and is operating them? I don't flippantly ask this, but I believe it will be the response the Marines get when/if they start asking for it. Why not just pass the FW CAS role to the Navy and take the Marines off the boat entirely if all you want to do is buy jets we've been operating since 98-99? In no way am I suggesting Marines should be routed out of the business, but I think budget cutters in Washington and in the Dept. of the Navy will see this and ask themselves why we need Marine variants of the same platform operating with the Navy on the boat. The Harrier and 35B differentiated you enough with VSTOL capabilities, and without it, Marine tacair would look very similar to what the Navy is already doing.