Originally Posted by
SRENNAPS
TEEEJ
It was called ILS – Integrated Logistic Support -Not Instrument Landing System
Mil Std 1388, Def Stan 0060 (now 600) and it was to be the saviour of the supportability world.
The truth of the matter is that we have always been very good at predicting how many spares we need, even from the old CSDE days.
However, what is the point of all this good analysis if the bean counters “save money” by not buying the recommended spares. You end up with short term, false economies and in a situation that we never actually recover from.
And to be quite frank the situation is fully endorsed within the MOD by our lords and masters from Sqn Ldr upwards on every project.
Precisely. We saw Def Stan 0060 being pushed in the RN back in the 90s as the be all and end all and to a man we all knew the shiny new procedures and paperwork would go precisely as far as the Treasury wanted, and no further.
It still amazes me how few people realise that accountants run the country, not politicians.