If you can't take the Army/Navy/Air Force, you shouldn't have joined a joke (delete as appropriate)

“The situation has arrived and has the Marines in hand.” Mae West.

“The French don't even have a word for Entrepeneur!” George W Bush.

“It’s been a real pressure working with you.” Me, when I left my last job.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Behind you all the way.
That'll do a trip.
Use a bigger hammer.
Watch this...

It's never done that before.

Practice D/F please:)

and maybe the military has changed but

"hurry up and wait!"

'' If you have time to spare, go by air''

But whose turn is it to have the French?

It will buff out.

Well it was working when we gave it to you.

(An insistence on) "The best, particularly in the business of defence, is so often the enemy of the good." Lord Carrington

You can’t have that, someone might need it.

If you didn’t put it down, don’t pick it up.

"You are the fifth person today to come in here asking us for one of those. There's no demand.. we don't stock them."

<Sigh> "What does that sign say, laddie?"

"Errr, 'Stores'?"

"That's right. And if we wanted you to have it, it'd say 'Issues', wouldn't it? Now jog on."

RAF Brampton Clothing Stores - mid-1980s:

Newly promoted AVM from HQ RAFSC: I would like some AVM composite rank braid please.

Storeperson: Sorry Sir, we don't have any in stock.

AVM: Why not ?

Storeperson: There isn't much demand for it.

“Have you tried switching it off and on?“

Or

”Try switching it on!”

They pretend to pay us - we pretend to work :)

Although perhaps that only applies to certain branches!

And did anyone have to do to stores for the following items?

Long Stand?
Long Weight?
Left-handed screwdriver etc.

spare bubble for the spirit level?

"Sparks for the grinding wheel"
"Clean air for the Fume Calibrator"

Airscrew pitch.

Or get the students to go and sweep the glidepath.