Sincere apologies for offence caused by my last post which was both ill-considered and badly written.
There are however, not 170 redundancies in tranche 1 but 1000+, and I feel most will think it "unfair".
Many of those will be less able, or less well placed, to manage their future than the highly qualified and talented youth who are being let go.
It all comes down to money in the end, and I have no idea how much it would cost to train 170 pilots that the service does not need - but I do know that today's military can't afford it.
CS