Seems like I had an experience similar to Danny's, during my end of SFTS course interview with the station commander. On discovering I had attended a Rugby-playing school, I was asked which position I played in: to which I responded "none if I could help it" (or words to that effect), "I was no good at sport and didn't like the game anyway". So who ever said 'honesty was the best policy' I reflected, on leaving the station as a Sergeant Pilot rather than Pilot Officer; but in the long run perhaps I had after all said the right thing, for NCOs seemed to pass through the blockage that was the Harrogate holding unit rather quicker than the commissioned - and so it proved to be for me.
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Geriaviator
Sir Basil Embry didn't always find favour with his subordinates, who included our sadly missed contributor Danny42C. Having flown Vengeance dive-bombers in Burma Danny returned to his old job in the Civil Service in 1946 but found its stuffiness unbearable, so he rejoined the RAF and at last was given a Spitfire to fly. His bid for a permanent commission was going quite well until he encountered Sir Basil, as he wrote in his e-book Danny and the Cold War:
Most followers of this wonderful thread will have copies of Danny's e-books In with a Vengeance and Danny and the Cold War but if anyone hasn't, send me a PM with your email address as Prune cannot handle attachments.