S41 - Very true. And you send the CVN not only because it has the extra fighters but because it has the Growlers and the Hawkeyes, and because without those there is the risk that a lucky shot with a discount-price Chinese ASCM will hit a ship full of Marines.
So why did anyone get into this notion of a stealth jet for the Marines? Because we were all assured it would not cost anything extra, because of the magic of the universal fighter and its 3000-4000-5000-unit production run.