Whats makes it "their" appliance? I believe the logo on the door says CFS, not an individual brigade. Areas such as west coast it is always going to be a case of they have to bring in extra trucks, and change the crews on those trucks. If the crew who took it out of staging to return home did not check the truck, and note any issues on the green check out T card (gasp! yes, T-Cards actually have a purpose), then it is the Brigade's fault for not ensuring their personnel do the right thing at staging. I get quite tired of asking, as a SAM, for crews T cards when they come into staging. The amount of times I have been looked at like I am an alien from the planet HFYVOIFCJOBJOK asking to be taken to their leader is laughable.
Exactly its not THEIR appliance, but these appliances are allocated to a brigade. SOME brigades take absolute pride in their appliances and modify them and spend their hard earnt briagde funds on them, they then get sent to strike teams where SOME people have an absolute disregard for the trucks they are in because they dont belong to their brigade, granted things do go wrong and damage does occur accidentally but also people do intentionally damage vehicles because they have the DILLIGAF mentality..
Now if our appliance came back from a strike team having gotten intentional damage to it i would be peeved to say the least.
But to say that it belongs to CFS you dont have a choice so just sit with it is also the wrong attitude.. Some of us take pride in our equipment and treat it with respect and honestly if its the attitude of its OUR truck then so be it, i would rather that then its CFS' applliance who gives a toss.
And as far as Raven is concerned well done CFS needs more crews like yours out there
Damage in the heat of battle is apart of the deal, but damage from people who dont care is just wrong.