Why do you think the numbers of trainee pilots wanting a FJ slot have dropped?
WHAT?? What trainee on earth would
ever say that they didn't want to fly the F-18, either classic or SuperBug? Weed them out and send them to learn knitting and flower arrangment - to which they would undoubtedly be far better suited.
I believe that 'wusses' is the correct term in the Antipodean vernacular?