Thanks for your thoughts Al!
Beware though, you might be falling for some of the revisionist political tripe, if you believe the "it all comes out in the wash" cobblers.
TBH, I cannot honestly ever remember being given any choice whatsoever about my NIC when in the Service? Can that be correct? Did I have any choice? And, if I had a choice, I was not informed!
So, now that I am to be penalised retrospectively, I call again for, "The Military Covenant" to be invoked!
Speak up, DC.............
OAP