Ian Moore – Military comes first, family second

People never understand that when you’re in the Military, it’s Military first, family second. Everything is about what you’re actually doing.

You’re in uniform, you have no choice about what’s going to be happening next, where you are going to be going, how things are going to pan out, and you’re family work around you, so the toll that it takes on a lot of families.

Not so much in places like the Army and the RAF, because they tend to be based as family units together in one place, whereas the Navy will literally, even when you’re based here in the UK, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be based in your home Port, which maybe Gosport, Portsmouth.

You could find that when you return back to the UK, and they give you your next posting, your next draft as it’s called in the Navy, your next draft maybe down to Plymouth or up to Faslane.

You either take your family with you, or again you’re in to commuting every weekend, so it takes its toll over  a period of time.