Enigma You are quite correct;but the system has been slowly 'culled' over many years.
Going from 3 to one solo was hardly progress and the organisation should have seen a big red light then.
The whole CFS / 2FTS scenario has also been quite useless at promoting the situation and became a 'job' that did not really exist or was needed.
AS has now been ably demonstrated the only real expertise was with the Schools/Squadrons and they became victims of an ever increasing bureaucratic system that lost sight of the reals aims.
No one with experience of a well run 'hands on' school could be taken in with the added nonsense of someone checking 'stitching' and quite frankly i am surprised that this type of non job was allowed to pervade the coal face.
It summed up the complete loss of what the organisation did and where it was going.
Of course the blame for this has to lie with the well paid (full time) uniformed
system that had no idea of what they were doing or how well the Volunteer element had coped with an ever increasing 'box ticking' mentality rather than capability.The Staff Cadet system was an unique set up that did not need some F...W... to interfere with and as alluded the standards and progress was a major plus point for the Corps. The fact that in its 75th year ATC Gliding had gone (in real terms) must be the yardstick by which we judge the poor leadership and inabilty of those in charge .
No amount of Twatter and Facelesssbook will change the facts;they killed the organisation and no amount of
PR can hide the facts.Leadership Leadership Leadership was needed and has been lacking for years.