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[Peter Laidler]

The REAL problem with back-loading excess 'warlike stores' (as it's called) lies with the Ordnance system itself. The jumps and hurdles you have to go through to get rid of it back into the Ord system is mind numbing in its complexity. With a series of forms that are simple enough but then it's the questions and more questions and 'other' associated paperwork that is called in the further it all goes on and along! Additionally, if it's been hanging around unaccounted for for years and years and is obsolescent or obsolete and the old VAOS part number has been changed twice OR the part number has fallen off the VAOS system, it's an additional round of grief - as I know from first hand experience.

There are a few shortcuts BUT......... Like I have said to others on one or two occasions, just make sure it is disposed of TOTALLY so that it can NEVER come back to bite you. Because if it can, then as sure as god made little green apples, then it WILL

[Brian Dick]

Good 'ol bureaucracy Peter.