The allowance is a getting shot at allowance, it is specifically paid to those locations where the degree of risk is considered greater than that allowed for in the X Factor; for this reason some op locations don't get it.
So to clarify. Are you saying you
have to be shot at to get the allowance then?
No, you don't, hence my reply.
There IS certainly a higher degree of risk and harsher living conditions (granted some much harder than others-I have experienced both) in operational theatres such as Herrick and Telic.
At the end of the day, I think we are talking about the same thing and this is just semantics.
This is the same age old argument that has existed for years.
E.g. why did anybody who lived and worked inside the wire at Aldergrove for 28 days or more get a medal, when there were people out on the ground getting shot at?
Simple- they were posted there to do their job whatever it may be. They didn't make the rules.
Like I said, if people don't agree or like it then move on. It is not worth losing heart beats over. Smacks of school kids not wanting to share their sweets with the less popular kids.
