Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the blueprint for recovery from this cluster**** bears an uncanny resemblance to the plan Middleton was pushing four to five years ago as RC North- long before the MAA ****storm was on anybody's radar? This, I feel, is the crux of the problem and why I think that few will continue to press on and fly AEF (presumably for free, while UAS cadets get paid). The leadership of the ACO, 22Gp and beyond, no longer than any credibility amongst the volunteers due to their ineptitude, deceitfulness and gross negligence from start to finish.
If this was the plan two years ago, then the guys and girls on the VGSs should have been told two f*****g years ago, so they could have gone on with their lives. As it is, they've taken time and effort to keep their sqns together; kept up with admin bollocks, including being bored to death by trappers' PowerPoint presentations, ironically telling them all about things like "Just culture". They've come up with their own training programmes to try and prevent skill fade and been asked by the powers at be to engage with and train local cadet units. They've been dragged to public events and airshows to sell the idea of the Air Cadets as somewhere kids can learn to fly. Finally, when the RAF has all the pieces are in place, they pull the rug from underneath the volunteers, claiming that it's a ministerial decision when everyone knows that the Minister is simply ordering from the menu that's been pushed under his nose. Why, in God's name, would any right-minded person want to continue to be manipulated and exploited in such a way?