VENDEE:
"And don't start me on batch numbers/GRN's as the military stubbornly refuse to adopt them. In civilian aviation, every nut, bolt and o-ring can be traced back to manufacture. The military still chuck stuff like that into "C stores" bins. If the manufacturer identified a problem, there is no way to trace the defective items"
Do we know each other? I was having that struggle as I left a secret Norfolk base.