Tucumseh, agreed and, what makes things even more tricky for this enormous PFI is that, on Service Commencement Date (currently mooted to be early 2011), all CS staff working in the 3 defence colleges will "TUPE across" from the CS to the Metrix consortium. At least, that is the intention. Clearly some may or will not wish to do so for geographic, professional or personal reasons and that is the real issue for most CS staff. For military personnel, well we are just moved to where we are needed but it is intended that far fewer Service personnel will be employed in this new centre of excellence in any case. In the meantime, the continued uncertainty gnaws away at those of us who are directly involved; for the rest of the military its far less of an issue I suppose but it's yet another "challenge" to divert us from our key task of delivering trained people to the Front Line (I don't mean the NHS when I use that term either!).