Reminds me of the RN and RAF chopped pilots on their JATCC at RAF Shawbury, neither of whom should have been chopped (naturally!!) They spent so long bemoaning their fate that they both knew each other’s story verbatim. They hold court in the bar and would tell anyone who expressed a vague interest about not only their own story of how the military had missed out on a future Red Arrow/Sea Harrier pilot, but also the other guys story too. One day in advance sim the RAF chap stood up halfway through a busy slot, took his headset off and with the words 'I don't want to do this crap anymore' walked out of the sim. He was found in his room about 15 mins later, and about 30 mins after was (via the Station Commander) off the station. Without his mate to banter with the RN bloke was chopped a week or so later. Moral of the story... it is a big big disappointment getting chopped, but if you don't move on you'll continue to fail.