I'd be more than happy for everyone to get a LSGC medal if I can return to my final salary pension, because why is my service deemed less valuable than those who served before me based on an arbitrary date?
My service was deemed less valuable that those that served after me.
If you served in the ranks before 1975, you had to do 22 years to get any pension.
My almost 13 years got me a big fat Zero. Those were the rules of the day.
It encourages one to work harder in civvy St.