Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
No mention of tax free cars from BFG. As a house owner did you also rent it out while living in cheap MoD housing? Just asking.
Yes, the BFG perk was used each time, but never used more than one car per three years, thus Gutersloh, plus JHQ, plus JHQ equals four cars in about 20 years.
Regarding housing, we always sold up as we moved because we never wanted to be posted back to the same area, and tales about disaster rentings were very off-putting. Fortunately I had some influence over postings as I would always choose to volunteer where/ when to advance children's education and my CV. There was always a shortage of those happy to be mobile, mainly because of well-paid working spouses. Bringing up four children qualified was working as far as my wife was [justifiably] concerned.