jwca,
Certainly. I was just elaborating slightly on the comments made by JSD.
Way off topic I know, but you did ask and I feel compelled to rise to the bait and so feel obligated to expand.
Flt Ops officers are not performing as envisaged, irrespective of their propoganda; they are generally professionally poor, lack Service and aviation knowledge and frankly are a very expensive option. They are an unwanted and unnecessary beaurocratic layer that the service can do without.
The individual I encountered exemplified the shoddy standard of this group of people.