Dreadful news indeed for those concerned.
Those being made redundant, are they being offered alternative employment within the RAF? (or Navy/Army crossovers) - or is it a straight 'see ya'. In addition, are they keeping only those doing well on their respective courses or is there some pseudo-PC ability/ethnicity/gender selection going on?
Out of interest though, if the RAF is making these folk redundant, presumably they can't at the same time be seen to recruit. Ergo, do recruiting offices say 'don't bother' and have they wound the OASC (or whatever it's called now) down?
In addition, as some of this batch of enforced retirees could be assumed to have made Air rank over time - what is their redundancy payment going to be based on. I know some girls who left the Army post-pregnancy got huge payouts on the basis that they were doing well and would have made the top.
No doubt in a years time someone will decide the cuts were too deep and the system will have to spool up again at short notice....