RAFC Cranwell in 1974. A student officer from an aristocratic background with an honours degree having been allocated to the last GE of the year, joined as a Flt Lt pilot such was the weirdness of the time. He also outranked his blunty direct entry Fg Off flight commander...
On being 'invited' by some PTI to swim lengths in the Whittle Hall swimming pool, he announced "Well, Cpl, what you need to know is that people in my world do not 'swim', they 'bathe'!". A floating bar in an expensive part of the world was more his scene than a tank of warm water at Cranwell!