If I had any more than the 3yrs I have left, I'd have banged my PVR in this week. For me, NEM payscales are a nonsense, the letter from an Air Cdre telling the Armourers to just deal with it, and that we'll get proper representation on the next review, and now the NI increases are what's tipping me over the edge.
The military is changing, and I've decided I can no longer stand the changes, so I'm leaving at 22yrs.
Sadly, I'm struggling to give reasons to the 2 SACs who work under me reasons why they should stay in, and work for promotion. 1 is already 95% sure he's PVRing when he returns from OOA, the other is clear he's leaving at his 12yr point at the latest, assuming nothing turns up in the meantime.
Maybe we have been cosseted with reduced NI, cheap housing and inflated pay for too long (although I've never lined in Quarters), and I'm not saying that at times it hasn't been deserved, but now that dying Soldiers aren't daily headlines, the public will soon forget, and there'll be further cuts to manpower/ wages /equipment meaning there'll be more to be done with less people, for lower wages/ pensions, at least until the entirety of 2nd line support is civilianised.