"Guess what? After SDSR the RAF is short of aircrew, esp fast jet pilots. There are front line and a lot of instructional posts that cannot be filled at the moment...."
Is that really true? Have more people had enough of things and left than were anticipated?
How do you obtain replacements? Trawl amongst the QFI world - oh, hang on, that's virtually collapsed now. Train more pilots? Well, first you need to find the non-existent QFIs, then wait for about 3 years until the ab initios make it from RAFC to the front line....
A bit like closing aerodromes. It might be an easy short term cost saving to further some multi-starred air wheel's chances of 'the third and the K', but becomes incredibly expensive when some dumb decision of the past has to be reversed and the aerodrome re-opened.
Why does today's RAF remind me so much of this:
