Originally Posted by
ORAC
The RAF does its best to paint a nice rosy picture of putting its people first, but one of its largest bases is essentially a construction site that you have to pay for.
The Lossiemouth documentary does its best to hide the cracks. You don't see the building sites that are the new accommodation blocks for JRs, SNCOs and Officers that are being erected on the site, nor do you see all the temporary portacabin JR accom that has been built on a car park. (That will be nice in a Scottish winter)
Nor do they show some of the blocks were the drains back up and human excrement bubbles up through the shower drain trays, or the ones were the water pipes burst and destroy the possessions of the guys away on Ops because no-one goes into the block for months as all the occupants are all deployed.
Or the refurbed JRs bar that was closed for the best part of a year because it flooded (and indeed the roof in the other part of the building from a previous refurb that has leaked since the building was reopened 6 or 7 years ago)
Or the rubber tent that serves as a gym, which is always freezing in winter but acts like a sauna in summer - when all the seagull **** it is encrusted in reeks to high heaven, just to make the fitness experience more enjoyable.
Talking of the gull problem - the noise they make disturbs sleep patterns, their excrement (and their perching) causes damage to cars, they cause millions in damage due to birdstrikes and the get aggressive with people during mating season.... but they are a protected species so 'nothing' can be done about them.
And lets not forget the weeks and weeks when we were all provided bottled water because the water supply was contaminated (and that happened more than once)
I'm betting other MoD establishments all suffer similar problems!