Tanker mates and AWACS need not apply.
Good to see common sense prevail but is a very divisive qualification.
Why the$*(% should they not get the allowance, for doing the job they are paid to do?
This is the problem with the UK Armed Forces today, this crap attitude whereby everybody deserves nothing, and should be grateful for what little they are given, and it is really sad to see on PPrune the number of people who have this attitude. What is wrong with giving people what they are entitled to, and compensating them for hardship? So what if it is not living in a sandpit, but they did not sign up to join the army.
With the number of people I read about on here who think that it is perfectly acceptable to be screwed by HMG, thank %8^& that I am no longer serving, and having to put up with "leaders" like you.
Y_G