What clothing for clearing

[mild mannered janitor]

On a related note (as I'll be finishing my clearing in the next couple of weeks)...


Anyone know what the bill is for a lost set of Number 1s? I've no idea at all where mine are, and Clothing Stores have said they expect them back.

i have three sets (want to keep the most recent as im a sentimental old bas**rd) so i have one to give back and a spare set going if you need them.

 

[FootTapper]

Thanks a lot for the offers guys

I'll go see them when I'm in next week (with biscuits, obviously) and see what they say.

 

[Spearmint]

Thanks a lot for the offers guys

I'll go see them when I'm in next week (with biscuits, obviously) and see what they say.

You'd be amazed at what can be written off.........

 

[Odie]

Anyone know what the bill is for a lost set of Number 1s? I've no idea at all where mine are, and Clothing Stores have said they expect them back.

Probably nowt. Last year at a large, yet secret, AT&AR base I handed 3 big poly-bags with kit in - one with greens, DPs, body armour & face welly, one with KDs & deserts and one with blues. There was no checking the contents of the bags, just a signature on the chit and a cheery best wishes for the future.

 

[topstop]

Unlike the RAF in the Andrew 90% of your kit is yours, you have to buy it. Only work boots(Steaming bats) overalls and some specialist bits are "loan clothing".

It was great at Woughton being able to swap stuff I would normally have to buy.

When I left, from Dolphin, I took my stuff to Loan clothing to get it signed off and was told to ditch it in the bin on my way out. It went back in my bag. No it didnt go home with me no, not no way no how. that would be naughty. Nomex 8`s, ovies and bats very useful.

Nomex 8`s were very warm but wouldnt hold a crease 2sec after the iron was removed it looked like it had just come out of a tumble dryer. £70+ if you lost em in the 80s.

 

[FootTapper]

You'd be amazed at what can be written off.........

When I was at a secret AT/AAR base somewhere in Oxfordshire there was a very helpful approach from clothing stores, pragmatism was the order of the day. They'd not have had a problem with writing them off. Now I'm in Hampshire and things seem very different, but we'll see...



(At the current base I was offered a deficiency chit for eye protection when I deployed to Afghanistan - I did wonder what the ballistic properties of a def chit were)

 

[Joe_90]

I was at that particular Hampshire Unit when my OOA was brought forward by 4 months and I was given 10 days notice to move. Because my original LTA was so far away they had ordered none of my kit and when I walked in to let them know, minutes after finding out myself, I was told nothing could be done without a clothing stores appointment. I made an appointment for the following day only to be told that I should have ordered the kit weeks in advance. The idiot JNCO behind the counter completed defended the system whereby the orders weren't processed until just before LTA and kept infering it was my own fault to have the audacity to be going in my reserve. In the end I was the one that had to cancel a days leave to pick it up from a depot because they couldn't even get someone to do that. In short the Servicemen in there used to be complete mongs only a few years back so I wouldn't listen to a word they have to say as it's unlikely that the IQ's have managed to come up by much.

 

[liverpool1]

When I was at a secret AT/AAR base somewhere in Oxfordshire there was a very helpful approach from clothing stores, pragmatism was the order of the day. They'd not have had a problem with writing them off. Now I'm in Hampshire and things seem very different, but we'll see...



(At the current base I was offered a deficiency chit for eye protection when I deployed to Afghanistan - I did wonder what the ballistic properties of a def chit were)

It's your own fault for getting posted then

 

[stereolab]

Price

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I remember clearing and walking into the PTI section (in uniform) to get my chit signed.

PTI ... What can I do for you.

Me ... Sign my chit please.

PTI ... Oh ... are you just arriving

Me ... Leaving.

PTI ... I've not seen you in here before ... been here long?

Me ... Six years.

Never set foot in the place.

I was asked the same question when clearing from a unit just south of Holland, in1996, I told him the last I spoke to a PTI was in1972, hewas not best pleased. I cleared in uniform for the majority ofsections asI needed my uniform to attend a Cocktail Party in theeveningbefore I was departing for the UK. Clearing whilst an exercise is being conducted , on a Unit which only parents you,is no fun.
Sticky keyboard,sorry.