Originally Posted by
langleybaston
I like the apochryphal tale of the cavalry subaltern being shown a Harrier [not a T] at an Open Day.
Harrier pilot, showing cockpit : ..... "this is my office ........"
Cavalry sub: "but where does the responsible NCO sit?".
Sounds like he must have been related to his counterpart in the WWI Punch cartoon, which I regrettably cannot access at present, with a chinless wonder of a skinny moustachioed cavalry officer, complete with swagger stick and britches, looking at the myriad of pipework in the control room of a submarine, and saying to the burly bearded submarine officer in submarine jersey and seaboots, "I suppose you must have some sort of sergeant Johnny who understands all this stuff".
Jack