Originally Posted by
GlosMikeP
.....It first became an issue of discussion when there was talk (very brief I'm glad to say) of merging the supply and engineer branches; and proposing to allow suppliers to hold down engineer posts. Yup, you read it right!.......
The idea didn't come from the Supply Branch you know? It was unpalatable to Stackers as it was to Engineers, after all it could have resulted in folk who had done zero engineering training at Cosford signing off repairs on a/c, not something I'd want on my conscience as those lads from St Athan dug out another smoking hole.
Thank god someone saw sense, although the shift of Supply from Admin to Eng wing still happened and was almost as bad an idea.
