back in 1990, whilst working in 3rd line maintenance, I needed a new resistor to mend a tornado control panel.
The said resistor came wrapped in grease proof paper, inside a plastic bag, with an NSN ident label. This bag was wrapped in further packaging, then sealed once again in another plastic bag, with another label on the front.
I can't remember exactly how much this resistor had cost the RAF, but I do remember this, we could have purchased over 10,000 of the same resistors, direct from the RS catalogue.
Money wasting has always been the one thing we can rely on the MOD to do really well.
Typhoon, MRA4, A400M, FSTA...........
at least we have enough body armour for the boys and girls in the thick of it.
