Originally Posted by
Saintsman
I would suggest that if you have service personnel having longer than the usual amount 2 tours, you would find a lot of PVRs as that’s not really why they joined up. A longer time in post is almost certainly what is needed though.
I find that surprising. Single personnel early in their career maybe, but once people start a family a longer tour length is less stressful. I left my PC at my 38/16 option point because my family life had become extremely difficult. A major factor was uncertainty caused by constantly changing short tour lengths….but also because on three occasions I was told how my career for the next few years was going to run, only for it to be changed again at very short notice, more than once to the benefit of others who seemed to live a charmed life when it came to preferential postings.