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A charismatic and firm leader is what is required to kill the meeting culture dead, the best example I can think of is John Bloor who has taken Triumph Motorcycles from a basket case to a serious international success........ But it took twenty years to do so.
Nail, hammer, hammer, nail! The MOD has got itself into a deadend as far as Military Airworthiness is concerned. Having ordered the suborning of Regulation and Enforcement, as well as ensuring the compliance of Investigation, its solution now is the MAA/MilAAIB, which will ensure that the dysfunction simply continues. Why does it do that? Simply to protect those who first caused the sabotage of Military Air Safety and those who have covered it up since. The system has to be rebuilt from the ground up and outwith the MOD, which is an Air Safety hazard in its own right.
As you say, it needs a leader to make that happen, another Trenchard, Dowding, or indeed Bloor. The rot permeates the body military, with many tainted by association, others have seen their careers ruined, their health broken, for daring to resist illegal orders. There is now at least enough common sense not to needlessly risk non-military lives (cadets in this case), which is an improvement on the reckless use of a grossly and knowingly unairworthy aircraft to take 25 pax fishing. Yet another tragedy that has never been properly investigated, where evidence was suppressed, where willing witnesses were not called, where deceased crew were made scapegoats for a decade and a half.
Someone has to tackle this situation which has now morphed into the pointless bureaucratic paper shuffling exercise complained of here. Someone...?