Cats Five
The military require the glider recovery to have oversight in line with EASA145 rather than lower standards of oversight required by most of light aviation.
It follows that if you are going to have airline standard oversight then the people who deliver oversight to to this standard are going to command remuneration that reflects the industry norm for such work.
The contractor who had the maintenance contract for the gliders has clearly failed to meet the required standards, first when maintaining the fleet and then following the grounding by the MAA has failed to get any sort of recovery underway.
Part of the reason for this must be the failure to put in post people capable of the task. It is clear to me that the company has failed to understand what it costs to secure the services of such people when you look at the advertisements for these posts.
It might just be starting to dawn on this company that the days of underpaying, relying on ex- military people who are getting a military pension and are spooling down to retirement to do these jobs on the cheap is over, because unless they are incredibly lucky any one they get at that price will just not be up to the job.