Stuff,
Yes I knew what I would get paid when I joined,what my pension would be and how long I would need to serve to get it, and also what allowances I would get. I also had an idea of what the job market was like outside the RAF.
All of the above have changed.
New pay scales. AFPS 15. I now have to serve 20 years to get what I was told on joining I would get after 18. (Balpa would be striking if this was an airline!) allowances cut. Pay freeze followed by 1% pay "rise". To top it off, airlines are
Recruiting heavily, more so than when I joined, so when I'm in a position to leave, if nothing changes drastically to keep me in, what does the RAF think I'm going to do?!
The RAF changed the goalposts that were in place when I joined.
It's not rocket science.