The guys and girls in the section at Kinloss were always great adverts for the trade in my opinion. From 'extras' like popping out to the SAR jet with kit (which should have been picked up by us anyway....oops!), to manufacturing bags in all sorts of sizes, to sewing on the armfuls of badges worn by CXX, they routinely just 'got on with it'.
Having take part in many, many pool/sea drills over the years, I cannot once think of an item of kit serviced by them that failed to operate as intended - even the special drill dinghy always inflated upside down to facilitate the 'first man in the water, rights the dinghy' part of the exercise!
They must have had the patience of saints to deal with 13 smelly aircrew dumping a mountain of kit in their lovely clean section at the end of each trip - hopefully the odd packet of biscuits and doughnuts was some reward!
Never had to use their kit in real anger but I always felt confident that it was being looked after in the meantime. Good luck with the association and I hope a few of those who do owe your trade a great debt can make the dinner.