Don't be ridiculous
"Hasn't changed mate! A good friend of mine was 1 flight away from being a front line Junglie pilot (after 3 years training and a shed load of money spent on his training by the tax payer) and within 2 days was chopped, no rethread nothing. He hadn't even picked up an Air Warning previously. People may bang on about drawing the line somewhere etc etc but sometimes I think the system is just bloody silly and lets everyone down."
I find that very, very hard to believe (to put it mildly!) Your good friend would not have got chopped without a full Air Warning process taking place - the investment in personnel is too great to just chop people in the manner you allude to.