This ties in with the Tories plans to axe a third of CS posts at the MOD. What has been forgotten, is that having civilianised many important, but non-deployable posts (such as some MT drivers, suppliers etc), they have now become faceless CS and ripe for persecution.
The ire would be better directed at the officer corp of all 3 services, which has excess that could be easily trimmed, with the added value of reducing some of the superfluous layers of beaucracy they often create.
(Officer Corp stand fast - you do a great job, but you could be doing it in the field, instead of on work creation schemes in HQ's)