Keith, in case nobody ever told you, I'll do you a favour: you're about as arrogant a git as I've ever come across, and I work with historians. You're so far up your own arse you think you can see sunlight, because you're cleaning your teeth from the tonsils end.
Your problem is probably that you get your history from the crap end of the daytime TV channels, which specialise in the "historic" study of the socialist policies of the National Socialist Party of Germany, focusing on the performance of the Messerschmidt 109, and their brethren in the gutter press, After The Battle and its descendants, whatever it is now.

Musket, be careful not to confuse the MOD and fighting forces. The teeth end have as little as feasibly possible to do with the MOD, because the latter are a bunch of time-serving civvies whose service is something associated with the form used in the CofE: all faith and only by a miracle does anything actually result. You could fire the lot and the delivery of the Military would shoot up.
Whether it is anything to do with the reality that they're mostly distributed in places like Llangennech and Runcorn, which make Little Britain look like a documentary, and recruit locally, I leave up to you.