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Joint Personnel Administration

Rolled out with much fanfare, JPA is the brilliant concept of piling administrative responsibility firmly on the shoulders of the end user - thus saving millions on office bods. The big balloon, however, rapidly deflated when it all went horribly wrong: the new system being implemented without the back up of the old one. Now there's clever. Individual records quickly disappeared in to the electronic ether never to be seen again - well... that's what happened in the RAF anyway. A total cake & arse party ensued, with hapless airpersons feverishly rewriting their service histories.

Another downside to JPA is that the days of sloping off down to your PD Point in Gen Office (under the auspices of a travel claim or allowance query) are well and truly over. Logging on doesn't quite hold the same allure as swanning off work (for an hour or so) to chat up the blonde bird in SHQ.

Allegedly stands for July, Possibly August, with reference to its introduction date for the Army.