Scuttled, I think he did!
I applied and was succesful
My company of 700 has just completed a redundancy of 200 of its’ workforce. 100 took voluntary and 100 got compulsory. Everybody was able to find out how much they would get if it happened. They did not ask to go either, but they made sure they found out!
Oh and by the way, the support I got when I left the RAF (only 4 years ago) was a million times better than the support that my fellow workmates got recently.