Most of the "prevention of flying" and "Oops! We blew that procurement exercise" or "JPA sounds like a good idea", decsisions actually come from General Duties officers on a staff tour.
Ground based personnel and aircrew who are - temporarily - on flying tours simply have to get on with it and war amongst themselves while those responsible eventually slip back into the 'pointy' end and join in the attack on the "blunties" (or else they get promoted to air rank and move to a higher level of criticism).