Could you describe "overstretched"?
Hit the search button and see how many posts have been made over the past six months by the chattering class who would suggest the RAF has had a trainwreck in that regard.
Journo or not....the forum is filled with whinges about it. Beauty of the internet and all that. What you post today can be found years later by anyone that cares to look hard enough. The problem lies in determining the validity of the whinges. This forum certainly is not the place to do that.
If he is a real journo...he will have the answer to his question long before he gets here. If not....he is not much of a journo (thus would fit right in with the vast majority of them!).