Tomcat Sunset

Now that the F-14 is officially and finally retired we move into a new era of aviation, probably the last era of manned fighters. I've been wondering why so many Tomcats were scrapped onsite at Oceana, and why so fast. Beside that apparent fact that many airframes are no longer airworthy, it seems th government is shredding the planes as soon as possible to prevent parts from being smuggled out to Iran. This does not inspire confidence that the F-14 legacy will live on in the form of Flyable airframes that can live on at airshows.