None of us reported it up the chain as the message was coming to us down the chain.
Then you were victims of the very syndrome that tuc describes, for it is not supposed to be a one way chain but a closed loop. In other words, every time you discovered an incorrectly placed (and therefore dangerous) pin, it should have become the subject of an SOR (as was). No reports of problems = no problems (except of course for the likes of Flt Lt Cunningham!). In a nutshell you spotlight the destructive effects of the malevolent attack on Air Safety by VSOs. 28% year on year cuts in Safety Assurance expenditure led directly to the gross state of unairworthiness that is present day UK Military Aviation. Elephants? Rooms?