There are, as we are all aware, lots of grumblings from the military (myself included) that time on operations is steadily increasing for the majority of folk. The government values us soooooooo much that we get the "operational welfare package" and LSSA to compensate us for time away from loved ones. I have just returned from away (again) where the US troops get tax exemption for their operational time away (each and every month away even if they only spend 1 day of the month in theatre) and now the Canadians have followed suit after lobbying their government....... The French on ops get allowances AND time and a half towards their pensions!!!!!! In some operations double time towards their pensions!!!
So let's get to it and lobby our government to get the UK military on a par with our allies and get some recompense which means something. Perhaps even backdated to the beginning of TELIC? As if!
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