tramps
My post was conjecture, I don't know if my assessment was true or not. Nobody has yet confirmed/denied it.
I'm not saying that it was/is a good way to treat our armed forces. No doubt a few people on the truckie fleet were away from home when the redundancy notifications came through, as a possible RAF example of a less than ideal scenario.
What was the military supposed to do. Keep at home/gardening leave everyone who was possibly in the bracket for redundancy until the actual names were announced, not send them on courses, routine exercises, etc? That would be an awful lot of people whose life would be on "hold".....