Point taken, izod. I stand corrected.
What I should have said was the Hercules fleet at Lyneham has never had centralised servicing.
Maintainer,
Using that logic, there is a direct Cmd Chain link between everybody in the RAF and everybody else. What I meant was a direct link at Sqn level. Once you get above the level of the front line operators, priorities become diluted and the message is lost.
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