Will a full career kill you?
There was an interesting comment on the pensions thread that deserves attention on its own. There seems to be a lot of anacdotal evidence that those who serve 30-something years and then leave at 55 have a disturbing tendancy to drop down dead only a couple of years later (******s up the pension plans doesn't it).
Is this really the case? Any kind PMA inhabiters care to confirm or deny? And if it is true then why are suposedly healthy and fit individuals (truckies and shineys obviously excepted!!) dying so early?
Is it that we become so institutionalised that the shock of going out into the big wide world kills us? I remember a sqn WO telling me "Remember, when you walk out through the main gate for the last time, no-one gives a **** whether you turn left or right."
Perhaps we should all leave at the IPP!