SOME FINAL WORDS FROM RESPONDENTS


“At some point in time there has to be a state of normality reinstated. The comments made by senior officers that morale is fragile but fighting spirit is strong is 100% correct.”


“It may be a cliché, but the RAF really isn’t the same as when I joined up!”


“Serving in the military is an honour to most people who chose to do so. We enter into service because we wish to serve the country but we also have family lives and the current situation, where the military is becoming a much less competitive ‘company’ from a pay perspective is driving people away because they are struggling to cope with the financial burdens of outside life.”


“Will the surveys from 2015 be a single Service survey because the three unique services (ethos, provisions, experience levels being eroded disasterously) have been cut even further to a single non-effective fighting force?!!!”


“The values which attracted me to the Service have been stamped on by Ministers who show little or no regard for what it means to be a member of the Armed Forces or the family of someone serving.”


“Since our daughter was born 4 years ago, my spouse has missed her first words and steps, 2 Christmases, 2 birthdays and will miss her first day at school. We have 1 child and we won’t get that back. No other employer would think that was acceptable, but it is the norm across the military.”


“Surely it should be a life/work balance.” “Long may the surveys (and the RAF FF) continue.”


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