At a recent squadron function I chatted to a few old friends now on IOT. The pilot branch lad was full of doom and gloom, he claimed that seventy five percent of the last 60(r) course were offered either sixteen month holds or redundancy, and things looked really bad for him. The ABM branch lad was understandably smug. For myself going into IOT in 2011 I have a suspicion that I might just be OK, narrowly avoiding the kneejerk pilot pogroms, but I'm touching a heck of a lot of wood, and preparing contingency plans.
Has anybody else heard much else?
