Hmmmmmm compulsory service as a "blighter" eh - so then our senior officers would be as good as those of the civvy plods, all of whom do 2 years on the beat .....
don't think so!
I joined at 16 as a Junior Leader and when I traded up to Officer class a few years back I was told my pension now started at 21!!
So I have been robbed of 5 years pensionable service
... not quite correct
grimweasel.
You may have been "robbed" of 3 years not 5, as airmen's (or soldiers' or ratings') reckonable service for pension purposes dates from 18 - which by a strange coincidence is exactly the number of years of which I was "robbed", by virtue of being commissioned at 18. Had my 21st on my first squadron, not unusual in them days for the "gutter entry"...
