If I were you Chris, I would work out how much you need to retain for rehousing and retraining costs. I know from personal experience how difficult it can be after 22 years in the forces to adjust to civilian life, and this is far more important than covering a few debts. See if you can persuade yo...

Melanie I'm in the Infantry so its a complete career change!

Personaly there seems to be little differnce between BR and IVA. Our bank recently told my wife that as far as they are concerned we are BR and it certainly seems to have the same effect on your credit. Resolve UK advised me to go BR but as a serving soldier I'm not allowed, however I have since fou...

I'm going into Fibre Optics and Telecoms. The course starts in Feb for 5 weeks the company is called CTTS based in Lincoln.

Some bolt on course will be High Ropes Access, Welding and Sea Survival.

I agree and am dissapointed with this advice from Resolve(short sighted). At the time the Army needed soldiers to stay on to fill the short falls so it seemed a reasonable solution. Not much discussion about pensions or gratuity other than to only take the smallest sum, certainly no mention about ha...

Hi all 30 months in going well. I've not posted for a long time but I need some advice. I'm due out of the Army in June after 22 years service with very little hope of extending[:(] in the current climate. The advice given by Resolve UK at the time was to extend for 3 years unfortunetly I will have ...

Thank you [:)]and in response to your previous post I have no firm ideas as to what I would like to do when I leave the Army. I will be attending CTW in Portsmouth in Dec and hopefully I will have a better idea. I have recently been thinking about an operations managers post or even event planing an...

After such a positive start I had on this forum last week the thunder clouds have gathered again and my future now seems very uncertain. Mc Cambridge Duffy informed me today that my gratuity would definetly be up for grabs further more they could not make a varience or an exclusion until shortly bef...

Thanks to this forum my wife and are are feeling alot more positive about leaving the Army. I have just drafted a letter to send to my IP in regard to a varience. Officialy by 2011 the Army will be fully manned so overstreach officially should not occur[:o)]It boils down to budjet restraints. If you...

Hi all

Thats great news![:)] My wife and I applied for switch cards this summer after being in an IVA for just over a year. We didn't hear a thing no letter nothing. After along wait and without recieving a letter we went into the branch and were told that we had been unsucssesfull at this time.

Hi John I'm in exactly the same position as you. I was adviced by Resolve UK who provided the advice and set up my IVA through Mc Duffy to extend my service. Unfortunetly I was informed today that It is now unlikely that I will be able to extend putting my pension and graturity up for grabs. Ironica...