If I was king and could only buy one aircraft to support my warfighting needs, I would want it to be able to do a lot of things well, like the Hornet. I flew the Intruder and still love it, but it wouldn't be my first choice if I could only pick one. One night in 2001, I was rolled out of the rack after a short, post-EP-watch nap and told that I was written in to go along on a strike into AF (yes, very deep). "When's the brief?" "Uh, they've done the strike package, you're just filling in for ??? who dropped out. Your division is briefing in 10 minutes." About 4 hours later I was one of 4 hornets to get 8 JDAM on 8 DMPI's with good BDA of each. Now that's a user-friendly, efficient killing machine and should be revered with all the other great Carrier-based killing machines from the past. Let's stop comparing watch sizes based on platforms. Multi-role is king now. (OK, I still loved the fun, functionality and simplicity of the Scooter, though I only flew it in training.)