The other services
are recruiting at present, with no drop in pay. Also whilst we are on it I might mention the fact that RM pilots graduate from the same course as us and get
full flying pay - the fact they degraded Army flying pay until AC checkride was out of order in the first place when compared to our crab and Navy bretheren.
my papers are in, you may consider doing the same, you can buy a lot of white socks for 20k!