PAYD
Southside,
What a load of tosh! PAYD has been nothing other than a money saving scheme since its birth. The basic facts are that the MOD did not want to continue having to provide ORs/Officers etc 3 a meals a day for the circa 3 quid a day they were being charged.
All the cr** about it being trialled and being a success - the one-star in charge of the project was told to get it introduced. The results are where PAYD is in use there are empty messes (unless you have no choice), unhealthy eating patterns or worse, limited eating as airmen run out of money. As for the nutrional input from the volumes of micrwave meals being consumed......
Once again, with the help of indivuduals like you, a great part of Service life has been destroyed - all for saving of money to please the civil servants!!!