"It's obvious that you haven't googled - sld interview harrier pilot - yet or you would have found this for a start."
But it does not answer the question. What's the scenario where you need the F-35B's stealth - which is what has cost billions and will continue to do so - but don't send the CVN with its support capabilities?
Answer that, please, because the Commandant did not.
And whatever are you talking about with "pamphlets and journalist's [sic] agendas"?
By the way, I'm not being a punctuation Nazi for the hell of it. I do wonder, though, how people who haven't hacked third-grade English feel qualified to dump over other people on complex issues of technology and operations.
And to be specific about SLDInfo: They consistently retail pro-JSF propaganda, with no balance whatsoever. And they push ideas like the "Z-axis" (essentially, fused and netted avionics) without acknowledging that these attributes are not unique to the JSF, and are completely untested on the JSF platform.