The Nip
I don't think you could blob up the last 3 though. RAF Cranwell is doing Officer training, RAF Honington is doing baby Rock Ape Recruit training and RAF Halton is doing RAF Recruit training. What would you do?
1. Put Honington and Halton together? Either the poor lads/lasses would be beasted to death or you would end up with soft Rock Apes!
2. Put Cranwell and Halton together? The Recruit course is 10 weeks and the Officer course is 28 weeks for starters. There is not the room/infra at Cranwell and so you would have to build at least 6 new Barrack Blocks, a parade square for the Recruits to practice/pass out on and SLA/SFA for the instructors (of which there is a shortage of in Lincolnshire) - 100s of millions of £s. Or you could put Cranwell at Halton, plenty of infra and Halton House would make a great new College Hall...hang on, shut Cranwell, never!
3. Put them all together? Massive build program and disruption.
Only if the station closes that the basic training is currently at, does it make any sense to move it. That said, when it moves, it will probably still be a seperate course. Also, trying to blob together all 3 services officer or recruit training would be an equal disaster and need the kind of investment we had to make at Shrivenham.
Still if we cancel the carriers we'll have loads of cash to do this type of thing!
LJ