Let's not forget that Torpy gave up his duties as CAS and simply spent two years mounting personal assaults on FAA, JFH and carriers. (Whilst keeping up his own patented brand of in-eloquent public speaking and half-baked, low-grade oratory.)
Maybe some of the mud stuck.
And incidentally, there's an SDR coming. Save some money? What about that small force shoe-horned into Wittering? Easy pickings.