have served accompanied abroad before and in spite of moving from a Middle East location to Europe, I don't recall the admin being so appalling (apart from the usual 'Sorry Mrs WP, your husband will need to sign this.' 'But he's in the Middle East...'
Blimey, surely she would just sign it herself......
I never cleared a station in my time properly, did the main ones, SHQ, Medical, Stores Etc, then just signed the rest with a various amount of made up names and different coloured pens........... so even after all these years out I am probably still on the books so to speak of several units
Oddly enough nothing went astray