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Old 17th Sep 2018, 22:23
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Melchett01
 
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Originally Posted by Corporal Clott

Finally, we really need to get out of the mindset that everyone will stay until 60. They never stayed to 55, so why would they do better for another 5 years? If we keep 10% to age 60 we are doing really well.

CPL Clott
And therein lies part of the problem in my opinion. Defence is deliberately trying to engineer the Service demographics to have a greater churn of personnel - even more so than now, with even fewer than now serving to 20/40 (the old 16/38 point) and very few beyond. Getting people out whilst they are lower down the ranks means a smaller wage bill and a smaller pension liability. Cheaper all round.

But, and it’s a huge but, it’s a dangerous game to play and whilst the excitement might get people in the door your warfighting experience is significantly degraded. What happens when you lose your senior flt lts after years of thrashings and previous recruiting gaps end up synching with the same demographic hole? Whilst the raw total numbers look just about ok you can’t do anything about the gaps because most of your people are now 1st/2nd tourists and are you really going to bring back sqn ldrs to do gapped flt lt posts? Then what???
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