Cat Funt
It is not the military leadership that sparked this crisis, it was the failure of those maintaining the fleet to meet the basic standards of technical compliance and record keeping.
From the military perspective the technical oversight could have been better but with the simplicity of the task you can see why is got missed when you consider the front line aircraft that require management.
Now the whole training system is under review with the Grob Tutor fleet as well as the gliders up for grabs so the game has become much more complicated.
The treasury bean counters have there eyes on the gliding sites in order to make a quick buck with no view to the damage that will be done to the youth of the nation.
The rules on fairness for government contracts may well result in the very people who failed to maintain the gliders getting the Grob Tutor contract inspite of their track record.
Add to this a safety culture that is just as extreme as anything the Taliban or Isis run in the field of religion and you can see the mess that the whole thing is.
What should have been a relatively simple and inexpensive technical task( if given to an experienced glider repair company ) has become stuck in the mire of vested interests, political correctness and job protection of people who are stringing the whole thing out in the hope that they can cover up their repeated errors.