Well, the last five posts have got the message
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the UK Armed Forces are about to get the bat well and truly stuffed up their pension terms! The world is a dangerous place and I forsee that Service personel will continue to be very hard working and exposed to great risk in the future. Everyone should realise that they will be disadvantaged compared to other public service professionals because their VSO's fail to understand and fight for better parity.
Just remember that some other ( civilian ) public servants retire at age 50 on half salary because their chief's fought for 1/60th salary accrual rate on the basis that it was a dangerous job.
OAP