Originally Posted by
Scuttled
I've just been informed that my LOA has been cut again.
Less of a cut this time, so clearly that is just fine.
The point I am making is this. If you are offered an overseas 'sunshine tour', do your maths very carefully. With the combined effect of selling cars at a loss before I had any intention of doing so, my wife not working, increased cost of living, insurance costs with no no-claims, loss of credit rating, cost of flights back home to see our son and many other factors, we have spent all our buffer zone money and a great deal more by year 2 of a 3 year tour.
My posting has cost me an awful lot of money and I am not alone. Be advised.
If someone needs this advice then they should have never even joined the military, but having done so they should never have denied other folk the chance of an overs seas tour, 'kin chiseler
