Deserts!

[big duke 6]

Why won't clothing stores take back the mountain of deserts I have FFS!!! Its not like we are going to go back to wearing them! I've got enough RAF crap kicking around as it is.

 

[Realist78]

Why won't clothing stores take back the mountain of deserts I have FFS!!! Its not like we are going to go back to wearing them! I've got enough RAF crap kicking around as it is.

Wait until you clear, it's gobsmacking how much kit you've actually got, they say they want all of it back and then when you do take it back, the vast majority goes into the bin.

 

[Ex-Bay]

Wait until you clear, it's gobsmacking how much kit you've actually got, they say they want all of it back and then when you do take it back, the vast majority goes into the bin.

Or make a buck or tw on E-Bay when you're left ?

 

[techie_tubby]

We got just before Christmas from SIB about selling stuff on E-Bay, jist of it was they are cracking down on service personnel and ex service personnel from selling things on E-Bay they arn't meant to. i.e uniforms, S10's, helmets, plce etc etc. Something about them landing in the wrong hands and being used to impersonate troops.

Anyway, dont you still use deserts in Cyprus and the middle east? Bahrain, Seeb and places like that?

 

[muttywhitedog]

Why won't clothing stores take back the mountain of deserts I have FFS!!! Its not like we are going to go back to wearing them! I've got enough RAF crap kicking around as it is.

My Unit took all mine back without any problem last summer, and I've now hardly got any uniform on my clothing card, which will make clearing so much easier. As you say, its not as if we wear them any more.

 

[The Masked Geek]

they say they want all of it back and then when you do take it back, the vast majority goes into the bin.

I dropped off two big bags with the expensive stuff sat on top. Told the clothie that I was off to MPA before leaving and he wrote off my entire account there and then.

The rest was thrown in a skip on my last day in MPA.

 

[Cake or Death]

I cant wait to recieve my new new set of MTP in march time. Im out at the end of the year, so thats CS95, dessies, old MTP, new MTP, and what ever else is stashed in the cupboard of death! How much will stores charge me to bin it who knows DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[Downsizer]

Out of interest, for those of you that have cleared recently or a supply expert, what do they actually ask for back?

 

[vim_fuego]

Out of interest, for those of you that have cleared recently or a supply expert, what do they actually ask for back?

If it has been next to your skin they don't want it...that includes your camelback as you've been chewing on the bit on the end...At Waddo all they got into a twizz about was my gas mask back to the reg section and my number 1's and bergen back to stores...anything else they didn't give a fig about...even my aircrew watch.

The car boot I held was sizeable, held a crowd and made enough for us to go out for a slap up binge at Miggins and then some.

 

[FOMz]

I gave back everything I could find at the time.. 3 large bin liners full.

I kept my RAF holdall, black det bag, boots, a set of goretex and a few other odds and sods.

To be honest mate, clothing stores at the secret large Oxfordshire AT base weren't that fussed as 'it's all going in the bin'..

 

[norfolkred1]

I think it depends what your resident Stacker feels like on the day. All I gave back was my S10 and Helmet and knack all else. No1's in the attic with all the other shoite, son got the Bergen for his ACF and any other shoite I could off load to him

 

[Norman the Storeman]

In my experience it is down to the Clothing Stores at your unit. The JSP 886 is very vague on the subject;

'Retention of Clothing on Discharge or Transfer to Reserve – RAF Other Ranks.
To avoid the uneconomical exchange of clothing, the replacement of uniforms, footwear
and necessaries of those who are due for discharge or transfer to the Reserve is to be
continued only for those items which are to be retained by the airmen for use during
Reserve service. Replacement of deficient or unserviceable garments held in excess of
those required for Reserve service is to be made only when health or hygiene would
otherwise be adversely affected.'

I read this as if you need it for your reserve service you can exchange it for new just before you leave.

 

[Dragoon]

To be honest mate, clothing stores at the secret large Oxfordshire AT base weren't that fussed as 'it's all going in the bin'..

My sentiments exactly.

I ended up plonking my holdall on the counter (having previously given back all my deserts a few weeks earlier) and the kindly old chap signed my book off and away I went.

I 'retained' enough kit to see me camouflaged, armoured, and fully equipped should there be an alien / zombie invasion and I'm left to wander the streets fighting for survival.

Mind you, my increasing waistline since the end of compulsory PT will mean I won't fit into anything I have boxed up in the loft. ::

 

[FOMz]

The only downside of handing all that kit back was that I had to go to B&Q and buy some proper loft insulation.

 

[freudian slip]

I gave all my deserts back last week, been told i can bring all my greens in for disposal in June.
They did not count what i brought back just crossed it out.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

All I had to give back was my S10 and my helmet.

I kept everything else, even my Number 1s.

Seems like it depends on whatever your local stacker feels like.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

We got just before Christmas from SIB about selling stuff on E-Bay, jist of it was they are cracking down on service personnel and ex service personnel from selling things on E-Bay they arn't meant to. i.e uniforms, S10's, helmets, plce etc etc. Something about them landing in the wrong hands and being used to impersonate troops.

Anyway, dont you still use deserts in Cyprus and the middle east? Bahrain, Seeb and places like that?

Seems like a load of bollox as usual from the Scuffers, being as you can buy everything on the internet anyway, including S10s and helmets.

 

[Redundancy please]

Seems like a load of bollox as usual from the Scuffers, being as you can buy everything on the internet anyway, including S10s and helmets.

Would not wan't to be the one caught though to test that theory, remember even scrap clothing has a residual value to the MoD when they sell it in bulk to a certain ex-mil clothing company, so selling yourself could lead to prosecution and remember if prosecuted for such things you can lose your Gratuity (if on resettlement leave etc) and your Pension if found guilty!!!!! An ex colleague had this happen and lost £40,000 gratuity and pension for rest of his life (he had done 22) for selling some scrap RAF Stuff for a few quid in his pocket, cost him an awful lot more, so enjoy selling on e-bay if you fancy it!!!

PS: and the scuffers do trawl e-bay and other such auction sites occasionaly, same as they trawl Facebook etc for people bringing forces into disrepute....hence the Airman discharged for Anti Semetic comments on his FB P/F. We all know the Scuffers are sneaky little F**kers and love to turn someone over!

 

[Get Tae]

We got just before Christmas from SIB about selling stuff on E-Bay, jist of it was they are cracking down on service personnel and ex service personnel from selling things on E-Bay they arn't meant to. i.e uniforms, S10's, helmets, plce etc

Oh how I would love a scuffer to arrive at my door and prove where I had obtained the stuff I was selling on ebay seeing as I handed in my blue book a few years ago. They have no authority over civvies selling anything on ebay.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Would not wan't to be the one caught though to test that theory, remember even scrap clothing has a residual value to the MoD when they sell it in bulk to a certain ex-mil clothing company, so selling yourself could lead to prosecution and remember if prosecuted for such things you can lose your Gratuity (if on resettlement leave etc) and your Pension if found guilty!!!!! An ex colleague had this happen and lost £40,000 gratuity and pension for rest of his life (he had done 22) for selling some scrap RAF Stuff for a few quid in his pocket, cost him an awful lot more, so enjoy selling on e-bay if you fancy it!!!

PS: and the scuffers do trawl e-bay and other such auction sites occasionaly, same as they trawl Facebook etc for people bringing forces into disrepute....hence the Airman discharged for Anti Semetic comments on his FB P/F. We all know the Scuffers are sneaky little F**kers and love to turn someone over!

I'm well aware of that, what I was saying is that the excuse about impersonating soldiers is bollox as you can buy everything bar an L85 and some ammo on the internet anyway if you fancy walting it up!