Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
The reminds me, when £20 was a lot of money impecunious officers could buy duties and certain wealthy ones could avoid such onerous task. Bosses didn't like JOs that were financially independent.
Catching up after a week of sunshine .,,
Was interviewed by my IOT Flt Cdr at Feltwell after paying my Mess Bill, who asked if I had ‘independent means’. I bluffed my way through that, and then next Mess Bill was even bigger.
No, I was skint and in debt for the next 15 years, having started off by blowing my Initial Officers Uniform Allowance on a car!