Originally Posted by
Party Animal
I thought that ‘officially retired’ ID cards were available for formerly serving personnel?
It's a moot question anyway, retired cards in their various forms don't allow any unescorted access rights into MOD property, not least because a retired person is no longer subject to any form of vetting.
I left on retirement 6 years ago and I certainly don't expect to walk up to a service establishment and be allowed in, I'm very much a civilian now. My former service is neither here nor there.
I went back to Northolt a few years ago to give a talk to service leavers on their resettlement course, and I was signed in and escorted, I expected nothing less. The sense of entitlement of some former servicemen staggers me.