Air Cdre Baber is due respect for the way in which he admitted his part in this whole affair but Tuc is surely right. The ultimate blame should not be laid at his door. Money is at the root of all this and he had no control over that. The limited budget is initially down to the bean counters but they are only working on a budget shared out by the services having been dictated by the Treasury to policies dictated by the politicians that we vote in. As someone pointed out here a long time back and was wrongly shouted down for saying, we the taxpayers and more accurately the voters are ultimately responsible. We, not all of us for sure, but the majority, vote for the party that promises the least tax and give our priorities as ensuring that crime, education and health are dealt with first. The truth is that the forces are being asked to do more than anyone is prepared to budget for. I'm not saying the IPT is innocent, ultimately it could and should have spotted the problems and sounded the alarm, but even if it had, do you truly believe anyone would have been listening?