Geez that is ****ty news.
Strange decision by VA to send them all the way across for A checks, guess at the end of the day they couldn't make any other solution work in the short term - especially if they have closed the books on the JHAS employees (and if JHAS are playing silly buggers regarding the facilities and tooling/GSE).
There are probably managers on both sides of the fence beating their chests and trying to come out on top - at the end of the day it's the poor guys on the hangar floor that get the pineapple.