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If you are serving or have served in HM Regular or Reserve Forces, you can now register FREE as a BAFF MILITARY SUPPORTER. Registration is quick, easy and confidential - you dont even need to give your name or full service number. For easy instant registration, CLICK HERE |
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Operational Allowance increased |
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(10 March 2010) In addition to acceptance of the AFPRB recommendations, the Defence Secretary Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has also announced today an increase to the Operational Allowance given to deployed personnel to £2,640 over a standard six-month tour, up from £2,380. This represents an increase of about 11 per cent, and is not part of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body measures.
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More BAFF interviews about service voting in General Election 2010 |
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(26 February 2010) Douglas Young, BAFF Executive Chairman and author of Silence in the Ranks, was an early morning guest for BBC Radio Wiltshire (programme presented from a cafe in Tidworth) and BBC Radio Solent (Portsmouth). He also contributed to a TV news package for BFBS. The subject of all three broadcasts was voting arrangements for service personnel and their husbands, wives or civil partners, mainly in the context of the fast approaching General Election 2010, but future arrangements were also touched upon.
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Read more from BBC Radio Wiltshire
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New poll on voting methods from overseas locations |
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Following the small poll which we ran on www.arrse.co.uk we have now posted a similar one-question survey on our own website:
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Independent professional staff association for HM Forces personnel |
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This is the website of the British Armed Forces Federation (BAFF), all-ranks tri-service professional staff association for UK armed forces personnel.
Membership is open to anyone serving in the British Armed Forces - the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, British Army and Royal Air Force - including the reserves. Former members (veterans, ex-service personnel) of the UK regular forces or reserve forces are also welcome to join the British Armed Forces Federation.
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More about BAFF
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The Office of Manpower Economics has now published the main 2010 report of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB). The headline recommendation is a 2% increase in basic pay for all ranks up to and including Brigadier or equivalent. Other key recommendations include:
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BAFF, ARRSE, the 2005 Service Voting Campaign, and 'Silence in the Ranks' |
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BAFF Executive Chairman Douglas Young's paper  Silence in the Ranks (197.4 kB) was produced on behalf of the 2005 Service Voting campaign, and helped to bring about important changes to electoral legislation and official attitudes affecting service personnel and their partners.
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More about the Service Voting campaign of 2005
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UK General Election 2010 political map |
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With the Telegraph's dynamic political map you can see the state of play in UK politics at a single glance, track the Government’s performance and follow the 2010 British General Election. Each hexagon marks a single constituency and clicks through to information on candidates, health, crime and education.
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Downloadable A4 poster (printed posters also available)
BAFF membership application form (Word version. Online version also available)