In my last year I will.....Get deployed to the ME for a nostalgia tour. Although as it's a 6 week exercise and not an op deployment apparently that's ok. Just happens to coincide with some non-frequent resettlement stuff I would rather be doing. Hey ho!

Leaving? Are you sure?
 

Frst let me don my tin hat and take shelter. Yes you're leaving, many of you with goodish pensions (wait for it). Let me outline my travails as a part time peguin and full time civvy.
If you think the RAF can be a scummy number, for that's what comes across then I assure you civvy st is no bed of roses. Work for Rolls Royce,check...but they went bust in 1970 chucking a lot of us on an already crowded jobs market. One company I worked for I found the directors with their fingers in the pensions till, two others were sold out from under me as yes, you got it the directors, sold out took the money and ran. In both cases they sold going concerns to competitiors who promptly closed down their new aquisition. Result penny pinched scattered pension and not much to show for 46 years on the coal face of industry. Compared to that 12 years VRT service seemed magical