Craven Reduction of Overseas IA
I'm currently on duty in the US staying at a popular range of hotels used by CHBS (or whatever it is called). To have one shirt, pair of pants and a pair of sox laundered (ie normally daily wear I suggest) costs $16 ie GBP10. So at the end of this three week trip (yes, I know, sheer hell) I am down by about GBP100 just in laundry charge. If I include the drycleaning of one suite and a pair of uniform trousers, that jumps to GBP150.
I'ver been collecting the laundry tickets to send into ACDS S&P to reinforce the point (copied my MP). It sounds trifiling compared with what our lad are suffering in theatre, however this happens to be my job iso operations. Within the calander year, I'll be about GBP500 out of pocket in reasonable laundry charges alone. If we then look at daily subsitance charges...well, the total goes into the 1000s pa.
Yep, the troops get everything that we need....