An aside on FJ underwing tanks and AAR. Putting on tanks full with fuel is (almost) a zero sum game, you burn the extra fuel taking off and climbing to height with very little gain once drag is factored in. The real gain is made getting airborne with empty tanks and filling to full from a tanker once at height - but that requires, for a formation, a land based tanker with a substantial offload - ideally shortly before penetrating hostile airspace where it can operate safely.
To answer an earlier question, it makes sense to launch the FJs close to the target to maximise on station time as opposed to transit time; and as FJs tend to expend munition also cycle time to replace them and turn them - problems a tanker doesn't encounter. So launching FJs from a carrier to meet a tanker which has has to transit 2+ hours to the RV does make a lot of sense in some theatres.