Seedcorn capability until 2020, and possibly beyond, realistic, or just good words to placate the committee....?
Do the seedcorn guys know they are on 8 year postings?
The whole point of seedcorn was taking UK people, who already possessed maritime experience and skills, and preserving those skills in flying (or flying related) posts with the help of another nation.
When does it just become nothing more than a large (one way) exchange programme, with someone joining the RAF, doing a tour on C-17s, then getting exchange on P-8s as their next tour, with no previous maritime experience?
Also, why are rearcrew officers part of the seedcorn package, when there is no longer a WSO trade, so any future UK MPA fleet cannot possibly be manned with rearcrew officers unless that trade is re-instated? Is it just a case of there are some rearcrew MPA officers that need jobs to do, and the seedcorn is one way of gainfully employing them?
Tuc - maybe he meant "relatively short" in terms of geological timescales!?
Last edited by Biggus; 20th Jun 2012 at 18:40.