IMHO, Anybody who has to ask that question doesn't deserve to be promoted at all, let alone to Wg Cdr
Safeware,
You describe yourself as someone 'on the outside looking in'.
In that case you have no idea of the current state of confusion and the lack of acurate information that is easily available to serving members of HM Forces, following the intriduction of JPA - There are a couple of threads on the subject if you are interested....
One may think that a simple call to PSF would answer such a question, however they no longer exsist. Your options are to trawl endless links on badly designed intranet site - that often contain broken links, or speak to HR Admin staff that will inevitably refer you to JPAC who will refer you to your HR Admin staff, who.....
I think someone who makes efficient use of the resources avaialable to him (PPRUNE!) to gather info is exactly the sort of chap we should be promoting!!!
