Originally Posted by
charliegolf
Nope, sounds exactly as I remember it, except we went (Gut) to the PSI shop and paid 5DM for the 'Peezi****' and went shopping.
CG
My understanding, based on 13 years during 3 separate tours, is quite clear and unequivocal. RAF individuals or the Civilian Compoment subject to Air Force Law could not make duty free purchases directly. The notional purchaser was either the Mess or the PSI, and the individual duly reimbursed the Mess on the day of reckoning.
The army system as described, if it was indeed so, could make fraud astonishingly simple ............ the magic chit as described could pass into non-entitled hands "just like that".
As Mr Meldrew said "I do not believe it!".