Ah yes I remember a whiskey whispered Warrant Officer that could reduce an unruly recruit to protoplasm in about 3-5 words, and I have talked to retired recently army types that say that's not allowed any more, sad really. There is only one god and his name shall be Yeager (wo1) and Darby (corp) shall be his prophet Yeah verily. I remember a time when if you pissed of the Warrant Officer 1 of the squadron or the station your life as you knew it was over. We used to have a tradition of Christmas dinner being served by the CO, AdJ, all the senior officers and usually they appointed the youngest/shortest, lowliest airman to be CO for the day well this one year they picked an absolute idiot who gave everyone a hard time, got stinking drunk and stupid insulted the CO etc, but got down right nasty with the station WO, two weeks later was sending back weather data from a place up north that no one had ever heard of and couldn't find on a normal map it took us a couple of days to find it on one of the big weather maps in the met section, I wonder if they left him there. Moral you can piss off the officers and survive but never ever the WO1. But that was the old RCAF now as Terry says it's more touchy, feely, but I think the world has whimped out now days. Duty is a word that is non-exitstant any more. I guess our time is passing.
Bill the demon.
