Count',
the only attractive feature I can see about about PES(A) is the fact that your whole salary is taken into account when it comes to the calculation of your pension. If you're not on the PA spine, it wouldn't matter if you were on super turbo enhanced flying pay, you'd only get a pension for the substansive rank that you're in. That's my uneducated take on it, it's still not parity and not much of a silver lining either. Especially when you consider just how few people in the Army actually make it onto the PA spine.
