- The need for a number of service personnel to choose between "food or fuel", with some unable to afford to drive home from their base to see family
- One aviator, a single mother, was forced to go without a hot meal for four days because she had spent her last money on baby milk formula
- The volume of enquiries to a key charity from or on behalf of military personnel seeking financial support has more than doubled
- There are individuals who can no longer even afford the price of the subsidised meals at their mess
- A sense of "discontent" at covering for striking public sector workers on better pay deals when the Armed Forces are not permitted to take industrial action themselves