Originally Posted by
dctyke
The one man that doesn’t seem to come up in all the chat is the Squadron Warrant Officer. On the four front line squadrons I served on he was the man who directed what could, and what could not be deemed acceptable from the groundcrew and at times the junior officers. He was answerable only to the squadron boss who quite frequently would have known him previously as he himself climbed the aircrew ladder.
In Germany the Sqn boss, had a red and yellow card he used to carry with him, if one of his officers was getting a bit "rowdy" etc he was shown a yellow as a warning to calm it down and if it continued a red would mean in my office tomorrow hat off for a chat.