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Is it possible that there is a difference between leaving at an option point and leaving via PVR?
Giving an OOA to someone when they PVR could be viewed as a punishment and would rightly risk sending someone into an operational theatre who wouldn’t be fully committed.
Getting an OOA during your last year of natural service could just be seen as the natural order of things.
I do not know this to be fact but I’m sure I recall hearing it somewhere.
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