True enough but the diminishing returns are going to bite. The Defence Force, aka deaf force, has been struggling to fill vacancies FEG wide and is now having difficulties doing so in the so called attractive careers i.e pilots.
Once upon a time the attraction was rather romantic and noble. Aviators in the new sport of airborne control and the knights of the air in conflict. It was a very special area, to fly in the first 40 odd years. Then the economy and travel kicked in making it a very new and attractive profession, jetting around the world with a dozen virgin's (waiting to be devirginated).
However the attractiveness of doing something new, different to the norm etc is no longer there. Flying is old hat, the thought of struggling through the forbidding skies [I]pushing buttons[I] is passe and trying to be a devirginator without the virgins is wot?
All jokes aside. If the deaf force does not advertise itself well what can you expect? Yes Billy says I want to be a jet pilot, but Billy is told that his frontal lobotomy would not be successful so he probably will not be a jet pilot. Will he be happy flying something else in the force. Bugger no why not become a successful broker or IT specialist and buy my own aircraft and do my own thing when I want to as opposed to being told when too.
I hear tell manpower/power force or whatever they are called has lost the recruiting contract. They may count themselves lucky. Would you pay full price for a mine that has only an estimated 10% left of its resources. Given that recruiting work on a bonus/commission basis how do you make a profit if no-one is walking in through the doors.