The reason they went for "mark time" rates of pay was that they originally wanted to claw back all the overpaid monies. When it was pointed out that they therefore would have to also claw back money from those that had left the service it was realised what an impossible task it would be. It is this that our lords and masters quote as fighting our corner. Parity across all three services would be nice, why don't we get a Joint organisation to fight our corner for us, some one like....JHC perhaps?