I parted ways with the PDF back in 1990 when my then girlfriend pointed out that if we wanted to get married and have kids then we couldn't afford it on a privates wage, so I ended up going to england cause there was **** all else in Dublin in 1990 (and ironically although I eventually got married and had kids, it was to somebody else).
Point is they actually want privates to leave at a certain point and the salary for a three star is intended for and actually not bad for a young person with no responsibility. Its only problematic when you start to have adult responsibilities. Same with officers, when I was in they had as real glut of captains and some of them were ancient. I was on cash escorts with felow privates who were in the Congo and now that I'm their age i wonder how they managed it.
But people leave for a lot of reasons, truth be told the job in peace time can be boring and frustrating, its not the real world, they promote terrible idiots simply because their face fits, there was in my day at least a real drinking culture, its an institrution and people get very institutionalsied, etc.
Point is they actually want privates to leave at a certain point and the salary for a three star is intended for and actually not bad for a young person with no responsibility. Its only problematic when you start to have adult responsibilities. Same with officers, when I was in they had as real glut of captains and some of them were ancient. I was on cash escorts with felow privates who were in the Congo and now that I'm their age i wonder how they managed it.
But people leave for a lot of reasons, truth be told the job in peace time can be boring and frustrating, its not the real world, they promote terrible idiots simply because their face fits, there was in my day at least a real drinking culture, its an institrution and people get very institutionalsied, etc.
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