It is a cull long overdue. When I served in the Ministry there was a buff- coloured phone book that contained the names and numbers of all those in MOD listed against phones. In common with many others I had nothing better to do one week than count the names, divide by three to arrive at roughly the number supporting the air force and then calculate how long it would take to get them all airborne in the aircraft currently on inventory. The answer was six weeks - not much of a measure of anything, I guess, but it passed a week away!