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Sky Sports
To summarize then, SINCE the gliding pause, numbers of cadets and staff HAVE dropped, (like all of us at the coal-face keep saying), DESPITE the organisation lowering the entry age to attract more cadets!
Now that deserves one of those sad face things that go at the end messages!
I think you are rather desperate to quote a sub 1% variation in cadet numbers over 3 years as evidence of a rapid decline and all the numbers quoted are still above those of just 5 years ago.
It is a tragic state of affairs but making up statistics will not help the cause.