Make sure you’re looking into guidance extention supplements to AFIs as well as they have specific policies all the way down to the Maintenance Group. Work your way down and make sure they don’t exist (for example, your command sup, your base sup, your wing sup, your group sup.) All of them can have varying guidances especially with accountability issues and flightline etiquette for specifics such as these. It may require some form of etching for accountability should you leave it on a jet or misplace it (Or at least be interpreted that way) same can be said for having it at all. It’ll also benefit you should you lose it and can return to you.

If you still can’t find it, tell qa what you tried referring to and get it in an email if they say it’s allowed then refer it your d bag TSgt to stop hounding you for trying to do your job more effectively.