How sailors acquire missing equipment

Do warships steal equipment for their own use?

Crews call it acquiring or strategic transfer; chiefs solve urgent problems quickly, while skilled supply officers make the paperwork durable enough that the item stays acquired.

Crews obtain equipment for their own ships through informal transfers, jokingly described as acquiring or borrowing. Chiefs are associated with solving an immediate problem quickly. Supply officers contribute command of forms and records so the transfer has an administrative basis. Practical initiative and paperwork play different parts in making the equipment available and keeping it.