If you want the extra 5K that much you could always join up.
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i did as did my brother and father and both grandfathers that were lost at sea in ww2

the country no longer has the money to throw about

if not saving here maybe redundancy would be prefrable and trying to earn the same money in civy st !!

as i have said and i fully agree sure it is a bitter pill to swallow but the world is no longer the lucrative place it was 5 yrs ago and things have to be done!!

we lost our local maternity hospital last week and everybody now has to travell considerably further to give birth

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One day you may need these people that are keeping you safe and sound Tornado and risking their lives for a pittance, you should bow your head not in respect, but in shame.

and one day they may need us that spoon feed them , wipe thier **** , put them to bed , get them up , rehabilitate them medicate them etc etc

for 5k per year less than they get !!

Ex Services, petition about to be signed, nothing else to say thats printable!

Apart from read this(yes I know its more than a year old)

Perhaps tornado 64 you would like him put down to save money?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1345587/Failure-option-I-WILL-walk-The-inspiring-paratrooper-injured-Afghanistan-wants-dance-STRICTLY.html

fail to see any connection !! i have all the respect going for him and others like him

but not all are the same

i genuinely believe people can get used to having too much done for them

i firmly believe more should be done to settle people in civillian communities and also in rehabilitating the injured into civillian life

i and my family looked at it like this , yes there is the support but it isn’t necessarily a good thing

1 married quarters could at one time be inspected by the millitary at any time !! ( in the real world landlords cannot do this by law ) this may have changed but my brothers mrs who is very house proud and private dispised the fact they could do it

2 in life you can also have too much done for you most go from being a teenager at home having everything done for them to being a teenager/adult in the army having everything done for them ( to such an extent they struggle to cope once they land in the real world

i work in the health proffession presently , have sole resposability to run my own house , and commute to work and whilst granted i’m not in london i have to do this on a lot less than 17k

To suggest otherwise, and to compare as tornado64 has done, seems little more than arrant nonsense.

I have signed the petition.

Regards,

kev35

from my experience of married quarters when i used to visit my brothers in minden in germany , the feeling i came away with was that he had made better friends amongst the local germans and if he had had the opertunity at the time he would have happily moved in amongst the germans !!

as said his mrs couldn’t wait to get out

it is sad that it is going that way but the forces are not the only job where you go out and may not come back

for instance if you wish to be in the retained fire service you have to move within the required distance of the required station at your sole cost !!

in some ways i can only see positives !! my brother had married quarters and his mrs couldn’t wait to get out of them !!

it is a fact that once someone is killed that even though the support network is around them that they would have to give it up eventualy anyway

wich would still be a wrench on all the family

if they had thier own place it is independance away from the forces that in no way stops you meeting with the same people

except the decision on wether they move on or stay were they are is the familys and not the M.O.D’s

not a first !!! top gear featured john dodds ” beast ” presented by steve berry in the 80’s , my friend has his engineering business next to steve berrys house and his jack russel keeps ste berrys cat in good running order most days !!:D

http://youtu.be/WHp58Ss5GvM

i was watching music vids !! breaking glass was a superb punk album with many great songs , will you ? has to be one of the top 3 saxaphone songs ever !!

http://youtu.be/QHfuOmwth5g