“Not even the most inept tabloid journalist would believe any organisation would be happy with 12.5% equipment serviceability”
Not only do certain parts of the MoD condone ZERO % serviceability (and availability) they positively encourage it by promoting those who allow it and denigrating those who fight it.
And while I’d like to think 12.5 SK3/3As were available on any given day is the norm, I have personally known 7 to be acceptable to the powers that be; but when it became 6 they made a polite enquiry. As ever, the problem was predictable, predicted and ignored. A week later it was back up to 19. Cost? Less than £200 travel expenses for two of us. (And, we dropped £50 on the Mess bandit at Finningly that night).