Watercheck,
I'm sure most CEP's would agree with me that WE DO NOT CARE how the improvement is incorporated. Whether it's an improvement in pay, benefits, allowance, whatever. AS LONG AS it's something that would bring our level of income AND JOB RESPECT to a similar level as the guy next on the list. And in doing so we DO NOT want any degradation in condition for any of our counterparts.
And for the MILLIONTH time EVERYONE, we respect the fact that the company invested in our career and a payback period is required. Just that it should be a REASONABLE FIXED period, be it 3 years, 6 years, 10 years, whatever, JUST NOT THE WHOLE F
ING CAREER.
As for the whole basing thing, well respected. However, direct entry has a choice of lifestyle or load up his bank account, doesn't matter how much/less experience he has (in or out of this company) he still has a choice. As for CEP, there's the choice of getting screwed financially for life, or still getting screwed financially for life cause we couldn't load the bank account up before going onto a base. We simply had no choice if we want to have the slightest chance to be able to retire with a survivable saving at the end.