I agree about the whole Mark Ready/VRC catastrophy and I think thats a very fair critism that regularly leaves me holding my head in my hands. As to personal issue, clearly there is a big shift in numbers from vehicle to personal issue (almost 10 fold in fact). Yes, some people look after personal issue a bit better, but just cos you can identify WHO lost something doesn't mean you can do anything about it (except order a replacement). Equally just how far do you go in deciding what is to be personal? Once day its a BM kit and tympanic but then what other shiny object will start taking peoples fancy. Not saying you're to blame just pointing out that whilst its easy to think that those responsible are wearing pips and stuff, sometimes they're sitting in the seat next to you! DSO