...Interesting thread.
under the radar breaches of harmony have been going on for years because getting them recorded was a right pain, but you have to keep at it and at it - not only for yourself, but for your troops as well. Interesting also that people don't seem to know that Sep Service reduced from 10 days to 5 in about 2009 so how many sep service payments are not being claimed? Harmony and more specifically harmony breaches was one of the reasons I decided to jump during the last redundancy tranche.
When I was a Fg Off, I remember an arrivals interview with one of my Cpl MT Fitters returning after 4 months in the FI where he had replaced the person who had replaced him 4 months earlier and trying to justify that he had been put on DWR to replace the same person again 4 months later!! It was one of hardest interviews I have ever had to do; 2 guys from an entire trade covering 1 OOA for 6 rotations cannot be right - it wasn't a specialised post either. We fought it until somebody in PMA (as was then) called my SO1 (the Unit CO) and told him to put me back in my box! The NCO, a rising star, in question PVR'd shortly after - I wonder why? This was early in my career and reinforced my belief that manning doesn't actually care about right person, right place it just has targets like the rest of us, slots to fill and service numbers to do it with.