It's not needed for any of the services, but while we are on the subject I would have thought it would fit in with the RAF very well...
I mean, initial thoughts go along the lines of it fitting in very well when say a fleet of Aircraft are chopped and we end up with a lot of Aircrew hitching a lift home having just dropped the frame off at the breakers... Or then theres the ground based engineers now without something to maintain... etc etc
Just saying thats all...
Trouble with that is you have good and bad on all fleets as in all walks of life, so you could end up chopping some of the cream, whilst being left with the milk elsewhere. Wasn't the Harrier supposed to attract the upper echelon of pilots as in the Marines? What happened to them when the jumping bean was canned?
Or does quality and achievers no longer come into the equation.