ET TU BRUTE

I read Julius Ceaser and the stabbing by his trusted friend Brutus.... and today I find my cadre in the same boat left bleeding in the name of "Loss of Command & Control".

Do we deserve better pay when our civilian counterpart are placed in much lower grade. The Father of my organisation has represented that we should be denied the parity of pay with regular service officers and so much so that blogs are full with happiness in our plight of degradation.

Honourable men, you have accepted granting of permanent commission to Women Officers in non-combatant role with the benefit of full Military Service Pay whereas you have denied us full Military Service Pay on grounds which is contradictory. You have accepted women as regular armed force officers and discarded the Nursing Women Officers by denying them their place as regular Army Officers.

What we lack ? Is it our profession that make us pariah! It is no doubt that we life in dark age and the Army has institutionalised apartheid.

We strongly believed that Armed Forces Officers pay and allowances should not be less than that of the IAS Cadre and rightly so you have acheived that for yourself leaving us out in cold with recommendations of downgrading our pay & allowances.

Despite all we will remain committed to our profession and we will take pains to serve the ill and the injured, with hope that maybe sometime you will realise and absorb us in the fabric of the Armed Forces as equals.