You live in a 'fast jet centric' air force. How many of the folk at the top have any large a/c background at all? Precious few, if any, I would venture to suggest....
When Ba$tard Bill retired, we all had to troop along to the OM to hear him quack on about how marvellous he was. When he referred to the AT/AAR squadrons as "Second line support units" to his beloved FJ chums, he lost our attention. Only the brownest of brown nosers bothered to meet him in the bar afterwards.
The AT/AAR force creaks along underfunded, overstretched and with little obvious regard for its value from on high, it seems. Time for Reid to demand that Greedy Gordon puts his fat hands into his sporran and bungs the MoD sufficient funds to replace ageing equipment and to provide adequate protection for all in-theatre AT/AAR assets - particularly the tactical AT. But most of all, time for those at the top to realise that today, the C130J&K are of far more actual operational value than the EuropHoon or J-TLA...and that AT/AAR and Recce assets have been far greater providers of UK military air support in recent conflicts than have a handful of fast jets.
How goes the Fictional Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme, for example?