Originally Posted by
minigundiplomat
As for the instructors being ripe for redistribution (very communist); many are civvies, and of the military instructors, many have nailed parts of their body to LFA9.
NB the wise words from Admin Guru above:
there are redundancy ripe individuals without portfolio
and the equally wise words from Farfrompuken:
We'll have wound down the system and face a significant shortfall on the front line.
As for career stream hold, in about 1988 we had a pilot holding pre-advance phase. He held in Ops for a number of months. His ambition was to fly Typhoon. I last saw him at Leeming around 2003; he was a sqn ldr OC AEF. He never got to fly the Tiffy but at least it didn't stop a good egg making sqn ldr.