Downsizer - agree. A proper federation is needed. Maybe, just maybe, if senior ranks now potentially stand to be disadvantaged too, in a way that they were previously insulated from, there may be some movement? It'll be interesting to see how the various bodies purportedly representing servicemen, women react and formulate a response, if it does transpire that the goat rope may be fed out to everyone.
Also, huge ramifications, potentially, for the WASPI campaign.