You ought to be grateful, if it wasn't for the RAF you would be speaking German now & living in a salt mine with no football club except Bayern Munchen to support ...
Being a current member of the RAF of nearly 22 years its more likely that they have lost far more experienced personnel than they accounted for after the last Tranche of redundencies. The main problem with our current force apart from being reduced to around 34000 total is that nearly a quarter of this figure are commissioned officers. Too many chiefs and not enough indians as the saying goes.....