Navaleye,
Surely that is just urban myth?
Won't the entire JFH be an integral part of No.1 Group in Strike Command and therefore staffed and run along identical lines irrespective of what colour the number plate.
9 a/c "available" per Squadron makes a little more sense in light of overall numbers.
Back to numbers of fast jet squadrons, if it IS to be 12, and I see nothing that suggests that that it won't, then some famous number plates are to dissapear, RN as well as RAF as there appears to be no future for 899 when it folds into 20(R). Is it No.3 for the chop?