Gaspode
4 points:
1. There are so many people leaving at the moment, how do you expect those that are left to go on ops and organise farewell parties?
2. How many farewell parties have you organised (without being told to)?
3. Did you put a leaving barrel on? (How many times did I hear a hairy SNCO tell me that he'd done 5 years on the Sqn and deserved twice the value of leaving present from the fund; only for me to tell him I expected him to put 2 barrels on for the boys...silence !!!)
4. I reckon you are better off leaving quietly; if you are leaving through bitterness, then the opportunity to revel in it publicly will only lose what good reputation you may already have.
I have no doubt that your time has been valued, but a leaving party is not part of the contract, and when I leave, I would rather do without one.