Originally Posted by saladdoger

All the cut backs in the world are not going to help if the MOD will pay £32 for a hole punch.

Its less than half the price of this one
RAPESCO 2120 HEAVY DUTY HOLE PUNCH 150 Pages BOXED NEW on eBay!

Originally Posted by saladdoger

All the cut backs in the world are not going to help if the MOD will pay £32 for a hole punch.

See my post #12. Combat Clerk capability doesn't come cheap.

Originally Posted by Eric Shawn

That stuff I can understand knicking, from a theiving bastards point of view, but a shed door?!

Why? And how did the crafty bandit manage to get that up his jumper?

Mate, there's a shed thread. Please put this where it belongs. OK?

Quite often things are not properly accounted for because of their spurious description that bares no resemblence to the actual item.

A few years ago 11 Regt were seen as missing quite a bit of kit (possibly in the millions at one point). EOD kit is a particular pig in identifying and at one point 821 were missing about £600k, at the end of a weeks searching all the ISOs on camp we were down one handcontroller. OK it's 10k, but that's a darn sight better than 600k.

There used to be a wonderful form called a "Transfer Voucher (TV)" which was supposed to be used to bring on to account articles which had been wrongly identified. It was however a wonderful mechanism for sorting out account without the need for boards of officers..

The best dit I heard was when they were clearing out of El Adam in the early 70's when (it is alleged) someone TVd two "Hangers Aircraft" to "Hangers Coat" and wrote them off..

Originally Posted by MittMayo

In Hameln a legendary Staffie managed to pilfer an entire 12 bay double storey Medium Girder Bridge over the course of his tour of duty there, the German Scrappies loved him!

I think I may know what happened.

Was he a big fan of Johnny Cash?

Did he nick it "one piece at a time"?

I'm guessing "it never cost him a dime".

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

Equipment worth £500,000 stolen from MoD - Telegraph


Equipment worth £500,000 stolen from MoD

The Ministry of Defence has revealed that equipment worth more than £500,000 was stolen last year.
Here is a list of items:
A £750 bearskin, £230 worth of pregnancy tests, a £500 tent, £1,000 worth of morphine, helmets, night vision goggles, uniforms, backpacks, boots, radio equipment, torches, rifle parts, body armour and ammunition holders.


A £2,400 lead statue, an £8,000 set of sniper's sights, clay pigeon traps worth £32,000, a £32 office paper punch, a set of telescopic rods worth almost £68,000, catalytic converters worth £32,000 and tools worth £36,000.


The MoD also lost four generators worth a £25,000, battery packs worth £7,000, fuel worth £2,700, a £1,000 chainsaw and £5,500 worth of historic broadswords, a £200 wet suit, an inflatable dinghy, a £2,000 outboard motor and a £50 lifebuoy.

A £20 smoke grenade, a £350 snare drum, an olympic-standard weight lifting bar worth £120, £513 of gym weights and £170 worth of car parking signs.

A gas cooker, a microwave oven, a £232 tumble dryer, a £500 television, a DVD player, a surround sound system, an Xbox 360 and £400 worth of ration packs, a sit on lawn mower worth £1,000, a shed door and a number of sat nav systems, mobile phones and laptops.

In a single incident, thieves escaped with a £40,000 assortment of equipment including weapons parts and communication equipment.

A fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

Equipment worth £500,000 stolen from MoD - Telegraph


Equipment worth £500,000 stolen from MoD

The Ministry of Defence has revealed that equipment worth more than £500,000 was stolen last year.
Here is a list of items:
£230 worth of pregnancy tests,

The mind boggles!

Originally Posted by Ancient_Mariner

I think I may know what happened.

Was he a big fan of Johnny Cash?

Did he nick it "one piece at a time"?

I'm guessing "it never cost him a dime".

That's exactly what happened. When he left, he said "how could I have lost a fucking bridge, are you mad?"

They searched the training areas for weeks looking for an MGB

Originally Posted by oldbaldy

The mind boggles!

Marines?