Leon, spot on! I reckon that the rot started in mid-1994, when we were certainly being pressured to do more with less, cope with ageing aircraft and increasing workplace instability.
As a sprog UAS APO at RAF Thorney Island for Summer Camp in 1970, I reckon I saw the last of the RAF I thought I'd joined.... Once I'd finished training, every successive year seemed to bring yet another cut back or sundry embuggerance even though there was little operational tempo back then.
But that was then and today is now. I really cannot imagine how force levels will be sustained if the idiot Fallon announces yet more cuts following 'revision of the core plan for the UK's Armed Forces' - the mental pressure on the few remaining in uniform will be frankly appalling. So there are likely to be increasing mental health issues in the coming years, in my opinion.