AA,
You seem to have missed the point - only tax free when we are being shot at etc. I know it's my job etc but at least Bodyguards are Us pay rates of $1000-00 per day AND have an insurance scheme that makes PAX Plus look like the joke it is.......
Mrs BUS works and pays tax so that takes care of the BUSlets healthcare and she is a teacher so that's covered too.....
The French military are paid a comparable rate to our own - discovered last month while chatting with a French chap whilst being rocketed by some nasty men.
How many months away from home have you spent in the last six years where people have been actively and enthusiastically trying to kill you?
I know, I signed on the dotted line a long, long time ago but what irritates me is the steady erosion of all the benefits I signed up for, not the increase in time away or the number of nasties we have to deal with. This tax thingy at a stroke would make an awful lot of servicemen and women more content with their lot 'cos the above mentioned packages (LSSA and OWP) are p!$$ poor and LSSA is taxed (give with one hand take away with the other).
Incidentally I have just been given a cunningly worded invitation to go to a hot sandy place next week for a bit to see if I can get my head chopped off while paying taxes for thieving immigrants (particular ones I have met in Dover) to live in a B&B and get benefits so they can fight extradition......
Rant not over but you're probably all bored now......
