A couple of us used to attend meetings chaired by a civilian grade C1; his opening statement was he was a wg cdr equivalent, and often would remind us peasants. I met him again at a JP233 drop - 30 x SG357. There were some ux on the surface and evidence of failed secondaries sub surface, so quite an involved clearance task. We were having a team brief when himself turned up and casually announced that he would be accompanying the team onto the range. Afraid not says I. After a bit of to and fro out came "I am a wing commander equivalent and I say I am coming with you", so my objection to having an untrained civilian with us was overruled. It gave me almost child like pleasure to point out the line in the Range Orders that stated when the range was RED the EOD officer had sole authority and he would not be coming with us. And he didn't.