CGB:_
perhaps the very fact that aircraft have been grounded/withdrawn/destroyed is indicative of senior officers actually waking-up to the issues and doing the 'right thing' (insofar as they recognise the problem and from a personal level are unwilling to continue the charade).
The only waking up is to the fact that they've been rumbled. Having cleared MOD's corridors of anyone who understood the system pre year zero, the subsequent cover up of VSO actions in wrecking UK Military Air Safety for short term financial savings in the late 80s/early 90s was supposedly secure. However, that didn't take into account FoI legislation and the tenacious determination of some of those expelled engineers (take a bow tuc!) to expose the scandal and start the long and painful task of restoring UK Military Airworthiness. You can't do that by grounding/withdrawing/destroying all the affected fleets, there would simply be no UK military aircraft left to fly!
The extent of the problem is summed up concisely by tuc (good post BTW) :-
tell me why today's PTs and the MAA can't do this. Starter for ten. None of them have ever experienced a word of what I've said.
That's no glib throw-away one liner, it's the awful extent of this self induced tragedy. The easy options have been tried and we now offer would be RAF entrants little or no chance of gliding, and we now offer the Royal Navy no RAF Maritime Support. What next? The RAF has no option but to keep the other operational fleets flying, despite a Regulatory System that has been rendered dysfunctional by...the RAF, and an Air Accident Investigator that has form in being compromised by...the RAF. If the Senior Officers that you speak of were to do the "right thing" it would be to demand that the UK Military Air Regulator and the Accident Investigator be made independent of the MOD and of each other. Their best bet would be to sister themselves alongside their civilian counterparts, the CAA and AAIB, though whether that would be welcomed by those organisations is another matter.
Every airworthiness related fatal accident thread on this forum has resulted from death. Give thanks that, no matter how galling it is to have had all the dedication and duty freely given come to this, this thread is an exception to that grisly rule. Time is of the essence now and time wasted is time (and potentially lives) lost. Never mind the past, fear for the future!