Ah! Them were the days Beagle. Unfortunately in my day the RAF was taking in thousands of u/t aircrew and standards had definitely dumbed down more than a bit because of that. One couldn't trust meeting a cadet in a pub who had had one too many and wanted to point out the error of our ways in the way we were running the courses. So, to avoid that potential court martial provoking experience we had an unspoken agreement; staff would drink at the Houblon (and other spots) and the oiks would drink at the George at Leadenham. It worked. The oiks would regularly get into trouble at the George, the landlord would report it in, DIOT would not believe that a potential officer could ever do such a thing and they must have mistaken them from one of the local agricultural wags, the potential 'officers ' would graduate and - hey presto - 20 odd years later they is now air hofficers (or nearly there).
See also the thread(s) dealing with how the RAF has turned to rat**** of late