All of these Hornet considerations (FLE, cats/traps) are driving our leaders to scrap a much valued asset, reserve Tacair, in order to obtain some additional airframes to attempt to bridge the gap to the JSF. There also is a large budget issue of additional underfunded programs, such as the heavy lift replacement, cost overrun programs like the follow on Huey/Cobra and the large ticket JSF, V-22, AAAV, etc. That's why we also are hearing about the possible closure of fleet squadrons along with our reserves and fleet squadrons having to submit flight time waivers for lack of mins due to jet lack of availability. No matter how you look at it, the future of "legacy" Hornet aviation does not look very promising.