The status stakes hurdles that face angry supplies officers.
Supplies officers do not seem to have much luck with government working parties and their status has declined since 1968. Today they are very much second line management. To help rehabilitate the discipline he calls for recognition from other groups that supplies officers have a professional function to perform.
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