The Brylcream boys
You are most definately not underpaid. Your salary is far better from Corporal rank and above than are the salaries of most civilian equivelent jobs. Ok so you dont get overtime and even in the RAF you may occassionally have too stretch your working week from 40 to around 50 hours. Now Matlows and Squaddies they work 60 plus hours most weeks. On active service an Infantry soldier may work 24/7 for 4 days without any sleep. Far too much for you Brylcream boys to handle ( rock apes, snowdrops and coverts exempted because they work for a living). That is why you chose to join the RAF because it was the easy option. You only do 6 to 8 weeks initial training. The navy does 9, the army a minimum of 13, unless infantry when it is 24 to 30 weeks. Royal Marines do 33 weeks.