P we..
"That 10 per cent is for when they are actually fighting a war"
You do realize that you are not on a fan forum? Do you think that the idea is that the Marines will wait until hostilities approach to train for shipboard and austere-base ops?
Spaz - Try to think this through. Sure you need STOVL to op from a ship without cats and traps. But if 300-some jets are doing this one-tenth of the time, that tells me that all this pain has gone into putting 30 extra jets on the front line. Good strategy?