FRIs, Retention and all that...

[Roger the cabin boy]

Ladies and Gents,

There are plenty of threads and comments about FRIs, retention problems, people being desperate to leave and so forth.

I'm genuinely interested in corralling thoughts and ideas in one place (not a troll, but trying to think outside the box for a piece of work.....) as to why people are leaving and what could be done to retain you.

I'm well aware of the comments about £100k = £10k pa, erosion of T&Cs, op fatigue, the sheer bloody nause involved in going flying (or spannering, or loggying, or whatever). I've been aircrew myself for donkeys, but as I'm not a pilot, I don't have quite the same pulls (or pushes).

Please, if you can distil it, what caused you to leave, and what, if anything, would have kept you in?

Thanks in advance!

[Madbob]

RTCB


What made me leave was the feeling that I was like a piece of butter being spread over too much bread!


HMG had to realise that it can either pay for more butter or reduce the size of the loaf. It wasn't going to do the former, or the latter, so I opted for some fresh grass and haven't looked back.


20 years on & I've no regrets, only happy memories and a sadness that things might have been different had our political masters placed a higher priority in looking after the national interest in maintaining the armed forces and retaining capabilities that we once took for granted but will probably never get back. The world is today a more dangerous place than it has been since the end of the cold war IMHO.


MB

[minigundiplomat]

TM,

Good to hear from you - hope all is well, mate?

MGD

[BBadanov]

I can see that spelling doesn't matter anymore either.