I still enjoy elements of it, great people to work with etc, but I think being a Tonka engo ( big presumption, but hey!) your views would change pretty quickly if you were on a frontline SH or AT Sqn, and watched all your manpower get "leaned" away from you, all your experience get redundancy and see 1st hand the devestation left when the government have to be bullied into fitting ESF,only after loosing 10 lives
.....
I think most people are upset at the fact that they are/were in a job they were very proud to do and thoroughly enjoyed doing, we all know you have to take the rough with the smooth, after all it is what we do. But the rewards seem to be less and less, and we seem to be expected to perform miracles and carry on with substandard kit, undermanned and vastly overstretched.....
People feel unnappreciated and undervalued, and morale is a HUGE factor of service life, even in armpits of the world like Basrah, Kandahar etc, if troops are happy then pretty much anything else is not a problem...
I do like my job, I work with lots of top guys, we get to travel, get cheap hobbys/ trips through organisations within the RAF, and enjoy a pretty decent shift, but all the time you can see the noose tightening around our necks, as a singly living in, I actually had a pay CUT this year
, after our derisory 2.7% rise, and food and accomodation charges have increased.