What utter twaddle, RayDarr. You must be one very blinkered individual if you cannot realise that people are not just automatons - their interests and ambitions my well change over the course of their years. Hence they may decide that the service life is no longer for them - and desire to move on.
Nothing wrong with that.
And it's the 'overall package' - the '$hit bucket' is far bigger than the 'fun bucket' these days and frankly it amazes me that any military pilot is retained as far the the ORD or whatever it's called these days. Unless they're a prolific brat-breeder taking advantage of boarding school allowances, of course.
Back seaters and the pie-eating team in the back of things like Nimrods have far fewer career options, so hardly suprising that retention is less successful for the 2WMR than for the 'and his crew' types.
Last edited by BEagle; 14th Jul 2006 at 11:21.