• You would get free dental treatment.
• You wouldn't pay for your pension but it wouldn't be free either - recruits' salaries are reduced to pay for it.
• Accommodation would be generally cheaper than in civilian life, but partly because it is of a generally poor standard and you wouldn't get to choose where you lived.
• Food charges are set in the same way as subsidised canteens in civilian firms.
• You would get some help to pay for return journeys by rail each year during time off to visit family and friends.
• You would get lower council tax bills, partly because you would usually share accommodation with others.

[Sources: Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2007; RAF Careers web site, 2007]

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