Which means that it hasn't completed a century of service, whatever one's outlook on them.
Certainly my 48 Squadron boss was not impressed when told that his night shift ground crew (before they got 'centralised') were not getting the refreshment van round, because 'it wasn't economic to do so'. He set out to find someone who could do the job, and agreed a price list for bacon butties, chocolate milkshakes, and the like, with a local contractor who paid for utilities consumed as well as putting an agreed amount into the Sqn fund every month.
Local NAAFI manager went ballistic and reminded boss and Stn Cdr that NAAFI had a trading monopoly on MOD property. Boss said that the operational capability of his Squadron required that groundcrew were properly catered for 24/7. Stn Cdr said that if the Sqn Cdr told him that his operational capability required 24/7 refreshments then that was what he would get.
NAAFI manager pushed it up his CoC to Whitehall whence NAAFI supremo came to remonstrate. Got same message from boss and Stn Cdr. Went back home. Local contractor remained, serving both first line and Sqn HQ, after we (Hastings) had gone and continued with re-equipped (Hercules) Squadron until departure to LYN.
I think it was the same NAAFI manager who had the RAF Police, that carried out our customs clearance on behalf of Singapore Govt, confiscate our duty free cigs (marked 'HM Ships Only', which were bizarrely the only duty frees you could buy in Kuching or Labuan) and substitute them from his surplus stock, because RAF Changi was not an HM Ship. His surplus stock consisted of Camel cigs only which were dual purpose, you smoked half and chewed the other half (if you were so inclined), as they were so loosely filled.
Servitor Servientium? Yer 'avin a larf mate, aintcha?