CS
Whilst there were some compulsory redundancies, the majority of the problems at Lossie were brought on by voluntary redundancies and ETs (all helped on their way by aggressive recruiting into the offshore industries), so not really the fault of any individual poster. What it does go to show is that whilst offering voluntary redundancy is one way of sweetening a bitter pill, it can result in the 'wrong' people leaving (from the Service's point of view) and that - dare I say it - greater use of compulsory redundancy in other areas of the Service might have had less effect on 'the sharp end'. Perhaps Manning could have refused a few more of the VRs - but a tough call to make when the policy is 'volunteers first'.
By the way, Spry, it's Gp Capt
Gale, not Gail - are you calling him a girl?
By the way again - I must admit to being a little confused as to why this interesting, but in the grand scheme of things fairly minor, story gets pinched by the Sunday Times, when the much bigger and dirtier story continually told by tuc (et al) stays resolutely low-profile. Perhaps if Air Clues can run a story based on the evidence
here, it might make the press! (get Fg Off Fixe to write it - sounds like he doesn't have much of a career to lose!)