Shipping 2 washers= $1000000

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MTB

Have a look at this place on Google Earth - 50°59'18.46"N 3°12'49.27"W

That's where your quango sent the stuff. It's Eldorado in another guise.

I visited that site just before I left the service and it was awash with spares our engineers were crying out for. I went there to recover (at great public expense) so spares for our jets. It was the same kit that I had received disposal instruction some 4 weeks earlier.

The disposal lists we received at unit level were unbelievable. Kit we had just received in from contractors or the depot was being binned. It was a criminal and scandalous waste of resources and money and seemed, to me anyway, the only purpose was to satisfy the bean-counters and their obsession with RAB.

I joined the RAF as a Supplier and left it as a Disposer - no wonder you guys are pulling your hair out!