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  1. J

    Pension and Tax free Allowance

    Ladies and Gents I'm a new arrival to the civilian world and I'm just after a bit of advice on my tax free allowance with regards to my pension. I'd like to have my entire pension come under my tax free allowance and pay all my income tax on my salary as they go in to separate bank accounts and...
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    Commutation

    I used to understand commutation under the 75 scheme, you opt to take a bigger lump sum now for less monthly payments. Looking at the current pensions calculator I can also opt not to get a lump sum at all under the 15 part of my pension for more money monthly. I don't really want to do that, I...
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    LSA, PODL and days away

    In the past I remember that any detachment that attracted LSA counted towards your 90 days for that year. If you managed to get 90 in you moved back down the OOA list. I've recently discovered that you now have to get PODL for this (I thought if you got one you got the other anyway, just been...
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    Dii and the Open University. Please help me!

    Just a quick technical question about Dii for you guys that work in a C4I. I’m a current OU student and in the past I’ve accessed the OU from Dii. Only on authorised breaks and lunchtimes obviously, RISE and all that. For the past few months whenever I try to login to the OU site I get the...
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    Welfare provision for Junior Ranks

    As a bit of a failure when it comes to my career I currently find myself in Junior Ranks Transit Accommodation on a course after seventeen years in the RAF. I remember a long time ago turning up at my first Unit and finding TV rooms and snooker rooms in the NAAFI. Today I am sitting in a...
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    Home to Duty

    Is there still a time a limit on claiming Home to Duty after getting posted in to a Unit? I remember in the dim and distant past you had to move out of SLA or SFA within six months to be eligible to claim. I'm thinking of buying a house nearly fifty miles from Camp but I don't think I could...
  7. J

    Removals

    Why is it when you are being moved for Service reasons that the removals don't have to take garden furniture? It's a genuine question because it's one that worries me right up until removal day every time. I've once had to hire a van to move stuff myself and once had to leave hundreds of pounds...
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    If the Falklands was accompanied

    After reading the thread about wearing blues/greens in the Falklands it got me thinking about why we still go to MPA unaccompanied. If it was made an accompanied tour, perhaps of two years would any of you goaters volunteer? I think I probably would, or at least not moan if I was a pressed...
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    Travel Warrants for dependants when on detachment.

    Just a quick question, probably for you shiney types out there. Can the warrants available for my wife to visit family when I'm OOA be transferred to her parents? We have a young baby at home and she doesn't feel like she could manage to travel the 400 miles to visit her parents with him. Her...
  10. J

    Last Tour

    Does anyone know what the current policy is on last tours? When can I apply and when am I likely to actually get looked at, that sort of thing?
  11. J

    Written Careers Brief

    Can any of you Shiney types tell me how long a Written Careers Brief takes to complile after initial application for one?
  12. J

    Even our Senior Officers think we're overstretched

    If even our Senior Officers reckon we are starting to struggle then there can't be any hope left for us. Nice to see he was completely contradicted by our Armed Forces minister. Bloody politicians. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13852456
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    SFA Applications

    Why do SFA forms have a section like a dream sheet where you can put your preference of what patch you'd like to be on? I am living in my 4th quarter and every single time I put down where I'd like to live. Despite this I always end up elsewhere even if there are empty houses in my preffered...
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    Were you on 2MT during Op Telic?

    At the start of Op Telic there was an augmentee J/T fitter who ended up having one of the trucks written off when he removed the main ram without securing the cab. I have seen pictures of the aftermath with said J/T trying to explain himself to the Chief in the foreground when I was in Basra...
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    BFPO Mail

    Just a quick question for those of you at Brize really, I'm currently somewhere warm but nowhere near the thick of it. Our mail takes between two and three weeks to get here and I was wondering what the hold up is? Is it all sitting at Brize waiting for space on the aircraft (which I know is...
  16. J

    Hogwarts BEngO

    Whatever happened to the Hogwarts BEngO? He was such a regular on this site at one point and always had something worthwhile to say.
  17. J

    The first of the few

    I've just watched this film about RJ Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire. I'm well aware that having been made in 1942 it is a propaganda film but this phrase hit me with the current climate of fear we have in the military over funding, "Guns always have the last word, a nation that forgets...
  18. J

    Bloomin' Germans!

    This weekend I've so far watched 633 Squadron, Battle of Britain and the Belgian Grand Prix where Sebastian Vettel drove into the side of Jenson Button and it's forced me to conclude a number of things. 1. Even after 70 years the Germans can't be trusted. 2. The Royal Air Force is without...
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    Get You Home allowance

    Does anyone know how much GYH(D) is nowadays? I'm going on a course next month about 420 miles away and I don't have access to the intranet for a while. I've tried google and searching this site but can't find the daily rate. Even just a rough idea would good, like is it £1 a day or £5 a day.
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    Christmas number one

    I saw on the telly the other day there is an Internet campaign to make the new Rage against the machine single number one instead of the X factor song. I have no idea what that song is or who won but I do know it will be a bad remake of a classic probably. I don't think Rage against the machine...
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