Sorry, my last post was badly phrased, not for the first time, or probably the last. I will try better here.
I am well aware of an 8,000 reduction in a force of 51,000 odd, including about 2,700 redundancies. So there is obviously a large enforced outflow in the next couple of years. What I was referring to, which most replies since have fortunately picked up on, was whether all this talk of people being hacked off and leaving anyway, even if they don't get the redundancy package, is actually likely to happen. Is it all talk. Is it comments by one or two on pprune, or a genuine feeling held by large numbers of serving personnel? Hope that clears up my point!!
And before anyone asks, I am not a journo, neither am I fishing!!