... which reminds me of popular crewroom rants at training bases I've seen. Why should AEFs be full of retired officers supplementing their pension when there're dozens and dozens of post-BFJT and post-AFT holding officers doing SAC ops clerk jobs up and down the country?
It's a good way to crush a guy's morale. Well done on getting your wings, mate, now off you go to do an SAC's job left gapped because we're making everyone redundant. And you have to do it for 14 months, because our training system's a bit busy with another air force...
Be nice if they could do a flying job, and exercise those shiny new wings.