“With Centralised servicing the ground crew became totally divorced from the identity and esprit de corps previously the cohesiveness of squadrons”. Totally echoed around the Service as a morale crusher inflicted by bean counters from that “other Air Force”. No longer “your aircraft” which you maintained to support “your Squadron”.
“Anything which cannot be put on a balance sheet cannot be supported”.
Yes, like people PVRing( and thus the RAF losing accumulated skills and experience ), Serviceability problems driving SEngo’s to have to push hard to get the morning line stats to meet demands that previously would have been met from the willing Squadron Spirit . I think most of us ex-serving folk of a certain vintage could draw parallels from our respective experiences.