Using us to cover strikers who are protesting about the same issues which we have to just suck up is outrageous.
But the general opinion amongst many of the CS that work in my organisation seems to be that the military get paid the 'big bucks' so we should crack on without complaint!
Then again, one of the same CS did let slip that during the early days of TELIC, they were getting £120/day overtime to do a duty officer slot which military personnel did as routine. That was back in 2003, god knows what the rate would be now .... probably why there is only 1 CS who is on a duty roster - the rest disappear around 1600 each day despite constantly reminding us of their 'officer status'. Looks like we're about to get done over by the CS once again. Remind me, which bit of Defence is the tail and which is the dog?