Tankertrashnav wrote:
The RAF's arrangements for the safe keeping of squadron silver, paintings are like a colander with extremely large holes.
How right you are!
When I was serving at pre-pongo Wattisham on Suphpholk's phinest phighter squadron, one of our ploys to take control of the Officers' Mess Committee was to volunteer, or in my case be volunteered, for various posts in order to achieve a majority. So I found myself as the Sqn Silver representative. Trying to resolve our swag against the property book was an absolute nightmare - we had things which weren't recorded and other items had simply disappeared. Probably through incompetence rather than theft though! So I did my best and unvolunteered sharpish. Good luck to whoever looks after 56(F)'s silver these days!