All good stuff and accurate but my point is - do not have as many SO2 posts and the ones you have, are meaningful.
Things have moved on from the V force and I, with no great opinion as I know many who hover in the useless SO2 post bracket, just think that the cost of too many higher ranks will be frowned upon in the corridors of civilian power.
I do think the FRI was divisive and would have been better spent on the 16k pa end of the scale or on JR accom - but I will never be in a position to sort that out.