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Old 24th Jun 2005, 09:31
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JessTheDog
 
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The 75 AFPS is good, but not as good as the Police or anywhere near the pension that the snout-in-trough MPs trouser.

The new scheme is (from my reading) disadvantageous to the majority of personnel who fulfil an 18-year engagement. There will be a small number of people better-off ie. those on 35 year engagements (warrant officers/squadron leaders) and above but since when did the command chain ever put the conditions of service of the multitude before the elite?

The consultation programme embarked on by MoD was a disgrace, as pointed out by the Commons Defence Committee, who raised the absurdity of each unit receiving perhaps 10 copies of the leaflet. Compare this to the lovely RAF History AP3003, of which there are more than enough copies for one each!

So - not good for most, better for a few.
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