As for the guys on Seedcorn I think you will find that they are assisting our allies plug our capability gap.
Since when did the UK MoD fund other nation's capability gaps?? Are these nations paying for our aircrew etc, including in-country costs? The whole point of removing capability from the UK Orbat is to save money, that includes personnel costs!
I am sure there would be an outcry if maritime FJ FW was removed i.e. delete CEPP and the RN kept its FW aircrew by sending them to the US, France etc in the hope that some government in the future brought it all back.