This was painfully obvious 5 years ago when I threw myself overboard...4 operational tours in the badlands within the last 8 years of Service, the note on file from my Desk read along the lines of 'we want to keep you but we can't justify trying to because our budget is over spent...'
PMA were just itching to shed people back then to bring the pay bill down, and to save having to fork out for redundancies. Must be twice as bad now...there'll be no broad backbone to the services. Lots of people with sand in their boots but nothing else.
Sad days.
