Where is the news story here??
We have been Xmas-treeing aircraft for years. Tornadoes, harriers, pumas, tucanos, wessex, chinooks etc etc.
Stocks of ammo were not available for the gulf war, landrovers were in short supply, body armour, flying kit actually ran out for 2 months, NVG were not repaired, Porton liners were impossible to find in GW1, Puma sand filters in GW1. The list goes on and on.
But forget all that, the really good news is............... lots of people managed to get promoted and get OBEs for their fantastic money saving measures before the major conflicts.
