We have a friend who was an engineer on the first-generation Hornets. They had a problem with stress cracks at the base of the vertical stabilizers.
Turns out it was the Marine pilots frequently taking them to maximum-G turns to show their Marine-ness.
If the manuever was to 'max-G' in the NATOPS manual, then the airframes shouldn't have cracked. That is a crappy design. Flying to the limit without exceeding it isn't 'Marine-ness' it is 'pilotness'.