Canberra,
The TG9/TG12 merge idea didn't get off the ground for reasons various, but mainly for the dissimilar duties and differing pay scales. This gimp in Bahrain is merely empire building, as scopies tend to do, a lot! Now that the AD threat to UK airspace is considerably less than it once was they, as a group of people, are keen to ensure their future and if that means usurping other peoples established roles then so be it. This fellow has one problem to his argument and that is he isn't pushing to include all the less savoury OOA Dets in his mandate.