The great shame about the current situation is:
we have 30 -odd thousand people who, for the last umpty ump years, have been willing to work late, run sports clubs, take increasing amounts of responsibility for no extra pay and maintain the 'unlimted liability' contract of being in a fighting service - all cheerfully, with a can-do spirit...
we have exposed them to increasing b*****x like 'elf and safety, JPA, EO training, gapped posts, reducing allowances...
we have seen the MOD fall in public opinion due to gross mismanagement and poor leadership and unpopular wars...
and now we stick the proverbial bat up... with a synical 'we're all in this together' .
Can we be surprised if people are 'jobsworth'?