I think Megaton touches on a really important point here. I jumped ship a couple of years ago for 'the promised land' of more money, more responsibility and, much more importantly, more quality of life (home every night, weekends off etc) but it does not necessarily make up for lack of job satisfaction. Yes, I love having all of my weekends with my family, yes I love being home every night, yes I enjoy payday that little bit more, but it is not strapping yourself to a £million military aircraft and going flying on operations, making a difference etc (you do clearly 'pay' for it in other ways though). Perhaps that is why the re-join stats are quite reasonable at the moment for all 3 services. Just my 10p's worth.