Carrier pilots tend to operate off land runways as though they were embarked at sea, lest they develop bad habits. When the carriers went into port at Singapore in the '60s they flew off beforehand to land at RAF Changi. Thereafter they would always land with arrestor hooks deployed which ploughed long grooves into the runway, much to SATCO's distress.
The accident rate while they were so deployed was an eye opener for we transporters but par for the course it seemed for the FAA, and merely occasioned yet another keg or two of beer for the consumption of all and sundry.