Ok enough gesticulating, my point was in relation to the other crew members on the nimrod, ie pilots, navs and if you like AEO's.
We all know they have been well trained and can offer plenty on other fleets but still they are being placed on the scrap heap and to the back of the line, why? why are manning prioritising DE's over experience from the kipper fleet for any posn's on SH? IMHO it's because they want young, clean slate aircrew with no previous concepts about how things are.
Ones that have not or are not so specialist trained already.
It's only my opinion and this is after all a forum for expressing just such things.