The RAF has 57 bases around the UK
The RAF operate 1100 Aircraft which means that each base is home to 19 aircraft.
If one RAF base were to close that would mean that each base was home to 20 aircraft.
There are 44,300 people in the RAF which means that each base is home to 778 people.
If one RAF base were to close that would mean that each base would be home to 791 people.
Whilst I for one would not want to see any airfield close, using those figures you can see how the bean-counters work.
I'm sure that the FDR will be far reaching and will be very painful. However, I am not concerned much about airfields or bases or ships or aircraft but what does concern me is jobs. The FDR will introduce some very scathing cuts to our people. Compulsory redundancies are going to hurt.