Jerricho
You are obviously committed to your work and I am not suggesting that you would want to run out of the door early - indeed I do not know any controller mil or civ that would want to legit and leave their mates in a difficult situation. Apart from that, it was just a statement that leaving work, may be delayed, for one reason or another, which could be staffing problems as you mentioned previously.
Manning - we are established for 24 controllers for 24/7 ops. This is fine until you take into consideration the fact that we have 1 controller in Basra, 1 in Cyprus(very nice) and untill recently 2 in the Falkand Isles(now just 1). Not our fault, but the way it is. I guess we are no different from other units in this respect.
And it's Moony!
Point Seven
I suppose that you will be posting a retraction and apology for stating the ' military receive an inordinately large pension'.
I am sure that your comments will be much considered by a huge amount of dedicated people.