"My question is are they actually looking at this? With shrinking budgets, And the country with Covid in debt up to the eyeballs. If there is a serious attempt to rename our service personnel you would be a fool to imagine it does not come without a cost. The simple and unfashionable reasoning behind changing Junior Tech to SAC Tech required new rank tabs producing, all the rank posters redoing, all paperwork relating to ranks replacing and the list goes on, Pensions, pay etc, one would like to know how much that exercise cost and for what benefit? The current system has been in place for decades, why change it now?"
Nutloose,
I would suggest that the only person 'looking' at this is the OP with an obvious agenda.
Any reference these days to members of the armed forces usually uses that very title, members of the armed forces, not a silly old fashioned phrase like soldiers, sailors and airmen.
That phrase encompasses the uniformed military, Civil Servants, Auxiliaries, Reservists, Full Time Reservists, Civilian employees and contractors, who actually make up the modern armed forces in 2020.