Can we please not generalise about "civil servants"?
I and many others were proud to serve the Crown as civilians, many of us in less-than-ideal posts ......... "mobile" civil servants were posted, and the choice was to take it or leave. We helped to win the Cold War in our little ways.
The scientific civil service was [and probably still is] a million miles from self-serving sick-note chair polishers, and a fair few served MoD simply because we had been rejected for the armed services.
I and my family spent 15 years of our lives overseas, with the churn and upheavals associated with military life.
Most of us who served the RAF were the good guys [and girls in later years].
Please be more targetted with the smears.