It's a bit of role reversal from my time in the RAF when you could go to stores, point at something on the shelf that you needed and Norman would say "You can't have it without a section ref". When you would ask him to provide the section ref they would politely tell you to go look it up
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As an aside, when I had about a month left in the RAF, I got stiffed for guard duty at a former training base near Weston Super Mud. All the permanent staff on duty were due out the RAF within a month or two, including a storeman. He told me that during training they were told to
never issue anything to a techie unless they were absolutely entitled to it and all the relevant paperwork was completed correctly. I don't know how true this was but experience made me think he wasn't bull$hitting.