Rolling20, I can't disagree that making many young aircrew redundant in 2011 was really awful for them, and it was actually closer to 470 as I recall. Either way, a very short-sighted decision as it left a capability gap that the training system has since never been able to plug.
However, I still stand behind my advice as the decision in 2011 was unprecedented and unlikely to happen again, and compared to any other flying jobs right now a career in the military is definitely more attractive and likely to be more secure, subject to actually getting in of course.
And I'm sure that most if not all of those 'poor sods' made it in aviation one way or another, and no doubt some will be about to suffer the same fate again at the hands of failing airlines. No guarantees in this life.