"can't be that bad if you're still in."
Whilst I was never of the opinion you were that convincing that particularly stupid statement makes you look the clown that most on here accuse you of
There are a whole swathe of good folk who are either stuck in the pension/education/mortgage trap who, should they choose to walk simply could not command the sort of wage they are currently paid.
There are plenty of good folk in all walks of life in exactly the same boat, go look at the MOD Redundancy thread on here and wonder how many of those people currently think life is a bowl of cherries.
The facts are that plenty of people with marketable skills are simply walking away from the military which reflects their complete dissatisfaction with their current terms of employment whilst there are thousands of cases, and i suspect WM is one of them, of folks who are simply hunkering down to see out their last few years to get the pension etc that their years of sacrifice so richly deserve.
If you took your head out of the sand/arse you might just start to understand what you are being told but as you assume that because people stay in they must be happy with their lot this I feel directly reflects the depth of your knowledge on this thorny issue