making them more pleasant places to spend 3 years
This should read 'Less than 1 year' as 12 months PVR notice, less annual, resettlement and Terminal leave would see the average bloke 'punished' for 9 months.
Then it all starts over again, how many more ways of 'forcing' people to PVR can they think of, there must be another round of redundancies in the air, and the MOD can not afford it.