Interesting sub-question ...?
I guess you could pose this one at all those serving members who wouldn't recommend the RAF as a career to a young man/woman ...
"Why do you stay?"
If you can answer that and not use the words "money", "cash" or "pension", then you've obviously found the end of the rainbow.
I think that life is far too short to do a job you don't like or believe in, whatever that may be. You are a long time dead.
For those of you who stay, I recommend the FISH principle.