Yes, I must admit that the pension has softened the blow a bit for 15 years already. After 21 years in and the way the RAF was changing for the worse ,the first redundancy in 93 was to much to resist, after all it could be jump before pushed.
At least I can remember Engineering Officers who would make decisions without worrying about their career path, and not being told the 'cost' of ever time you wanted something done or wanted to do. I can remember going to stores for aircraft spares and getting them without a new contract set up to get them manufactured !!!
In all those years I have never been unemployed,10 of those years in civil aviation ,and have justed started a new job as a civvie on a military contract, so I have first hand how much things have changed and not for the better.
