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Originally Posted by spike7451
Firstly,when I joined the RAF,It was a career.I was intending to do 22 years & retire.If I was still serving,I'd be retiring next year.But it all changed when the Berlin wall fell.The military were top heavy & redundancies started.
But how many teenagers & men in their early twenties saved like mad for a house do you know.Maybe now they do but back then,being a singly,I saved for a car.
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But that was your choice - don't get me wrong, I see your point about the system being unequal (to many groups of people) and it needs changing but I can't see how only campaigning for one group rather than a whole overhaul will get a system that works?
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Anyway,Why should I buy a house in,say Stafford when I decide to get married & settle in Scotland or somewhere.If I did buy a house hat would I do with it?Rent it out? That's ok if you live in the area & can keep a eye on things but what if you're down in Iraq ?
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Then you'd need a letting agent to take care of things. Even if you don't buy a house you can still save. I don't mean to comment on your specific circumstances as that's not really right. I'm not after picking your life choices apart. Even so, you must have known that when you left the army you'd need a house to live in.
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Secondly,I thought your comment;
*obviously if they have kids the the money will have gone to them, but in my eyes if you have a family you shouldn't be out there risking their lives surely?
Was a bit crass.Saying that only single men should go to war is wrong.
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This is my opinion - I think that if you have kids it's unfair on them and your partner to go to war (where you go to fight and die) and run the risk of coming back home in a coffin. It's just my opinion, nothing more.
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Thirdly,When you leave the forces,you're not treated the same by the lcal authorities when you leave the forces. I had to wait for seven years before I was even considered for a house yet one of the neighbours near me was released from prison for assault & was given a home straight away! What makes him special?And all the dole scroungers?The single mothers who get pregnant for a house? (I cite my neighbours daughter for example.)
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I have agreed with you - the system needs changing and equalizing but campaigning for just one section won't fix it.
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I come from this area,have family in this area yet get no help when I was made redundant.
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...and your right to be angry - we were when our house burnt down and the council took 6 months to find me my brother and my mum a house but that's life. Margaret Thatcher sold them all off and no ones built any more. Perhaps the campaign should be for more council houses full stop.
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The are injured servicemen invalided out of the services who have it worse than I or any other servicemen ever got.All we want is to be treated the same as our civilian counterparts.
Have a look at the links Hitback posted,you'll see what I mean.
Thanks again to all those who helped.Every signature helps.
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I did agree with you mate, the system need an overhaul.
