It is a sad fact that some DESO and Cadets will be effected as well if redundencies were to take place put unfortunately that is the risk you sign on for in a seniority based (loosely in CX) system. As sad as it is I have to say that I would rather see a colleague lose there job than my family suffer from losing income. Before you all jump up and down, this is also one of the things that I would accept if I was at the bottom of the list.