Also can I remind that the majority of the CS will sit in an office well behind the wire with te odd mortar falling there or thereabouts.
We, on the other hand, go sausage side get shot at (we signed for that haven't we, the defense of our country.....hang on a minute..?) but we earn our LSSA. 5 pounds a day taxed at 40%, ie 3 pounds a day.
So JIMLAD1 are u telling me that I should count myself lucky with my package of £3 a day for risking mylikfe in someone else's war, and getting 1 day off every 8 when i get back in the uk. Come to think of it why am I complaining?
Get away from this forum and stop talking a*se to people in the business who REALLY know what it's like.