Well, to an outsider it would obviously seem rather odd that the RAF has recently canned a whole bunch of trainee pilots and technically must also now have a few surplus Nimrod, Harrier and F3 aircrew - yet there is an alleged 'shortage' of pilots despite a manpower strength of 40000?
Pilots discarded in RAF cuts are needed to carry out missions in Libya - Telegraph
Amazing - no mention of the SH-word in Ward, sorry, MacCartan-Ward's letter. He's slipping!