I rejoined successfully
i left at my 38/16 point in 1977. I then did 9 years flying in RAFO, as it is now known. Then I did 11 years in the Civil Service as Higher Instructional Officer, 5 in Germany (with a free heated and lit OMQ) and then 6 in UK. I then rejoined the RAF as a Bulldog instructor on a UAS. When I retired again the financiers took the 18 years pension I had earned and drawn, added the extra three years I had done and recalculated the whole 21 years at the date of my second retirement. My pension quadrupled and is now more than my full salary when I was 38. If you rejoin make sure that you serve a few days more the three years, otherwise no pension boost.