The worse that can happen to you is mark-time pay as they cannot lower your basic rate once you have been in receipt of it. It will effect new guys upon completion of training and will do nothing for overall morale. The trouble with crewmen in the eyes of the system is that as SNCOs few of you have leadership or management responsibility (outside an airframe) and empowerment of Masters has done little to dilute that perception. A few guys sitting down and evaluating exactly what you do that impresses any audit of duties should not be too difficult but the flip side of this is that military guys all take their skills for granted and do not like flag waving.
It could be worse, and I dont intend to voice more options to the blunties who read pprune.