I was thinking something like
this.
I'm trying to not cast stones, but doesn't
On return the tickets were submitted to SHAPE who refunded my unit at the face value. Not only was my travel free but the unit also gained a 20% or so bonus.
amount to a member state defrauding NATO? Pay X and claim Y where X<Y? Isn't that the kind of thing that has got some people in lots of poo? Only in this case, it's not at a personal level, but at an organisational level.
I'm not casting stones because in my particular glass house I've earned and spent getting on for a million miles. I don't see why public servants shouldn't either, if, as Wader2 says, trying to negotiate out the miles has failed in the past.