Kind of hear your point pitothead, but there is a difference between choosing one 'fighter' over another, or a type of training aircraft over another, and destroying an entire capability honed over decades (to the envy of most nations) which cannot replaced for many years.
In the former you retrain onto a new platform and crack on. Lovely. Latter, nope. Nothing doing. Especially the case for non pilots.
Most Nimrod mates won't get the retraining option because the excellence they have spent their whole intellect and adult professional life chasing is now worth nothing.
Their RAF future has disappeared along with a hugely under valued capability.
If you don't think they're entitled to a bit of a 'chat' about that, well okay.
Don't read, don't comment, I refer you to Mad_Mark.