Not to interrupt a perfectly good rant, but thinking the grass is greener on the Navy side is just fucked up.
The Navy didn't just go out and buy full up Super Hornets and call it good. They spent more money "phasing it in" with APG-73 first, no conformal fuel tanks as originally advertised, and outwardly canted wingtip pylons (great thinking boys).
The Navy is notorious for fucking up acquisitions - often getting an upgrade for a jet but then only equipping half the squadron in a clusterfuck of combinations. For example - some squadrons would have half the jets with Link, a third with JHMCS, some with 9X, but none with all three. WTFO?
It's funny reading all of this crying, because I've been on both sides of the fence, and it's just a different flavor of the same bitching. The Air Force is even better in a lot of ways while being the same in others.