There was a point paper floating around about a year ago for the Navy to stand up a few squadrons of Turboprops in Iraq/Afghanistan, for low-cost CAS. It even detailed how pilots could take the assignment as an IA and save the Navy $$.
Wonder what ever happened to it. . .
I have heard that SOCOM is looking at the option, along with a few other aircraft, but never heard anything about the Navy doing it though.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...orce-planners-want-irreguar-warfare-wing.html
http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=20181
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004220.html