Originally Posted by
Melchett01
accepting a military salary level whilst expecting to do several peoples’ jobs, secondary duties, on call 24/7 for extended periods and then deployed away from home for months on end with potentially life / death responsibilty levels.
And that was just the start of it. Certainly, many in the RAF were on call 24/365, and that wasn't for wars, just routine cock-ups did see your leave cancelled and even, pulled-in off leave. Such aspects are probably part of a serious military job but, they have never been properly recognised in pay, never acknowledged by the "Command structure" and no element of recompense (that might be claimed as such) has ever been targeted to those effected.
I give you the example of a Squadron implementing the man management plan in the late 90's. Allocating personnel the target rest periods (two days in 7 not on tasked duty etc...) created big black marks on the stats due to shortage of manpower. Result, the Station man management plan was binned.
The only things that defined work levels were, Tasking, Aircraft availability, GASO's and the ingenuity of the individual! Bahhh!
OAP
PS. Oh, and don't go telling me that the tasking was limited by some magic formula of aircraft servicability and manpower. Manpower didn't enter into it at all and tasking was always kept over the top.