Looks like NCA will cease to exist in 10 years time anyway....
Depressing, but there is little need for specialist aircrew now, except maybe pilots...
No NCA, who will man the C17, A400M, Chinook, Merlin, Puma, A330MRTT (KC-30 or whatever name it has this week) E-3D, Rivet Joint (Maybe Preditor Maybe some other UAV's) ect then, do you know something we don't.
Mate, this isn't the end of the AEOp just a re-adjustment of manning, something us Air Eng's have had to live with for the last decade.