BV - I will happily admit it's over 2 years since I was last at Valley, and I will equally bow to your up to date knowledge of what is happening in that neck of the woods, and as such apologise for suggesting otherwise. I know the military (and ex military) guys and girls will ALWAYS do their best to make the system as put in place work.
But my main point is it has still taken an awful long time to get to the point of (presumably) ordering new aircraft and then getting the whole syllabus up and running.