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Old 25th Jun 2015, 13:54
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minigundiplomat
 
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Until recently, I would have agreed wholeheartedly with the statement below:

Yup, with a wife like that now, you have to make a choice...wife or the RAF. She needs to be 100% on your side and prepared to be on her own for long periods.
However, playing devils advocate, that was before the military/treasury decided to adopt very civilian working practices and turn the armed forces from a vocation/career into a job.

My question is whether the attitude expressed above, are still valid against the backdrop of NEM, redundancies, pay restraint and the 'train to Glasgow'?
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