I echo the above. Some of you know me as an (old) Admin (Sec) officer, who has managed to do only one full station tour throughout his career (and no 'HR'), yet has served on a number of Ops in varying capacities as well as shorter periods in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, interspersed by a series of 'interesting' tours at Home and Abroad. The Personnel Branch regularly gets beaten up - generally because of JSP 752 Allowances - and has regularly been targeted for undue numbers of redundancies; nonetheless, there is broad scope in the Branch (like most Branches) if you are prepared to stick your neck out and volunteer to move away from the accepted path to greatness. Just don't expect to become great in the process!
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