TD said
230 had an equalized servicing May to July and the Tanks repaired in july and yet 3 weeks later was sent out to the gulf after only one flight with "Acceptable" leaks from the same areas that were leaking prior to all this maintenance.
This is totally standard procedure. There are a lot of items that need to be fitted to an aircraft prior to it deploying to the gulf. Once maintenance has been completed there is little time before the jet leaves therefore only one or two sorties are usually conducted before leaving.
As for "acceptable" fuel leaks, that is EXACTLY what they are, ACCEPTABLE. I am again sat here wondering what the acceptable wing leaks have to do with the loss of 30.
Fuel SEEPING from a wing tank will not cause an aircraft to be lost. Unless of course a tank ruptured, and they were firing flares off at the same time but it was reported as a bomb bay fire not a wing fire so the wing leaks are irrelevant and detract from what the BOI might report.