I've mentioned this before, but whatever ... Callout Exercise at HQ 11 Gp in the 80s. I turn up, fully booted and spurred in DPM, Green Shirt/Sweater, LFO Webbing with filled water bottle and Respirator, and eventually brief AOC on airfield states. After the briefing I was told I should have been wearing a blue polyester shirt and blue sweater. Because the RAF didn't issue Green kit, unless deployed.
I wonder what they would have said if I'd been carrying my own [private] 9mm Browning with filled magazines from my own [private] stock? "Oh, you can't shoot intruders with that, it's not Gov't issue"?
Priorities? Been mentioned up-Thread. Bloody stupidity still rules.