"a university education, ya can't beat it.... " Lt E. Blackadder (1917)
What is the height of the bars that you refer to in the O's mess, or the scruffs bar, and what is the inside leg measurement of said Amazonian RAF officer? It should be pretty easy to determine to whom this post refers to, they will be the ones that are taller than the midgets in the Harlem Globetrotters. The good news is the injury sustained by the zip in venturing tackle out and then stretching the body to present tackle on to a bar top would only hurt for days.
If this was practice, I would be objecting to the PMC for expulsion of the member, and his associated items from the presence of the mess.