I fail to see how they can continue to recruit, albeit in vastly reduced numbers, for the WSOp cadre whilst making large numbers of WSOps redundant - I know we now are specialised but my peers and I have done the generic course and can be re-trained with the benefit of bringing our ops experience, airmanship and CRM gained on MR2 and MRA4 to our new platforms.
We may cost more per year than an abbo but what price on the skills we've already got? Makes me sick to be waiting for redundancy tranche 2 whilst they're still looking for baby WSOps.