The other thing you chaps need to realise is that the rotary (post Afgh) and F35/F18 guys are going to spend a lot of time at sea - especially the latter as "cats and traps" skills need loads of practice.
I'm curious about this.
Having read PPRrune for a while a common (and reasonable) concern is the lack of flying hours. If there are only a small amount of flying hours per month how many of these hours would be needed just to maintain cat-n-trap currency rather than focussing on the other skills that are required - low-level, CAS, ACM, etc? (Obviously, no matter what the training mission, you've got to get back on the deck at the end)
Along these lines there's an old jibe from the USAF towards the USN about how the USN would be the clear winners in any war providing that it was fought on the basis of being able to land on a carrier.
Given the likelihood that flying hours won't be going up in the future, is it a cost effective use of what flying hours there are to spend them on maintaining cat-n-trap currency?