In my day it was two months,
to move out of your quarter if
We managed to get that changed a lot.
And I believe now it's two years
and possibly if there's the ability to
extend, you can.
But also an awful lot of people have
The way that service operates is very
and people are much more
population,
widowed, to actually
Whereas if you just belonged on a base,
have to start all over again.
So, yeah, that was important,
We're talking 30 years
But that having to get out
And if you think about it,
to take their child out of the local
They weren't sure where
So often they went back to maybe near
something,
then had time to think about where they
could afford to live, and then
So that child might have had three schools
were at their most vulnerable.
The other thing talking about children's
that time a lot of our children,
were at boarding school,
we'd lived in America,
there, and so boarding school
And we could only afford it
allowance from the military.
But that allowance
your child was engaged in an exam course.
So if they were in their A level course,
If they were in their O level course,
But my daughter was only in the beginning,
so she could only have one term
to find the money to pay the whole lot.
And we did manage to get
There were a lot of things that just
And I have to say that my experience,
both parties were extremely
willing to help where they could
and be reasonable and could see
I spent a lot of time
through,
the Forces Pension Society
but there were so many groups of pensions.
Some of the older ladies who desperately
back who had no pensions at all.
And then campaigning, as I say,
extended to the end of their first degree.
And if you were doing medicine to continue
course, there wasn't an automatic cut off.
But that's when your pension stopped,
but the children did get a pension.
Not a huge pension,
those children through
And
in that there are all sorts of
even through university that they can
It was just getting people together
and to realise these were problems.
And you can only do that if you have
with the people that are making the rules.
And waving goodbye after
