While I feel very sorry for all you poor folks that are loosing allowances because you have decided to leave the services before your normal option, surely when you joined you understood that the purpose of an armed force is to fight wars. Therefore you must have expected to spend long periods living away from home in assorted sandy s**t holes around the globe. Or did you rearly believe the recruiters when they told you that it would be pimms on the lawn and young Debutants fighting to rip their nickers off for you when you flashed your flying brevet at them.
Perhaps you thought that the government of this fair land actually cares about you. Time to grow up children.
Rules of life are:
1. who the f**k are you and who gives a s**t anyway?
2. There are plenty more young kids where you came from all believing the above.
3. The civil servants will ALWAYS change the rules to rip you off.
There is no point griping about it, just get on with it.