Sen Fawcett
As someone who has reassembled some of the broken crockery over the years, I believe you should keep pressing your most logical and well argued points.
I suspect it may end like this:
He wasn't called the 'Screaming Skull' in his last career for no reason. He makes his predecessor 'the Ayatollah' look positively mild by comparison.
Whilst I see prevarication in his responses, do not be fooled. This is his agenda. Why he has chosen to bring it up is, I suspect, only known to himself (given that there are a number of pilots in his previous company that are CVD). However, once he has an agenda, he is like a dog with a bone.
Good luck to all colleagues that have been caught in the cross-hairs. I will be contributing.