I am sure that the hangars full of stored Gazelle that are not fit for purpose for the civvy market are nevertheless retained 'on inventory'. As always, stats can be made to sell the desired story.
Fully accept that an OCU/OCF/AFTS of whatever service is the next stepping stone but the statement seems to suggest undoing the single service cultural aspects of the training prior to wallop rather then the academics of flight. In fact there are merits in training on your future operational type that the UK has never embraced as it invariably also incurs more expensive running costs. The main player on that argument is the path taken by a RN Sea King pilot when compared to an RAF Sea King pilot recruited on the same day. Is the Griffin graduate any better a pilot? I suspect he may well be, as training is rarely wasted, but at a cost. A few years ago a few navy pilots and crewmen were routed via MEARW Trg at DHFS and 'pulled' on grounds of cost.