threeputt,
Your other reminds me of my time through Lindholme. One of our course whose name is linked with Arse did not want to go to the V-force. Simple plan, fail the course.
To fail the course he simply had to fail the Viva.
What we did not know was that no one failed the course (but see below). He went into the Viva in the certain knowledge that he knew nothing about the NBS and was bound to fail.
He started the Viva, all the boxes in the Sim with power off, at 0830. They finished at 1700 having had one hour for lunch. I have never seen anyone so punch drunk and crushed. He was posted to Valiants so he won in the end.
No, a friend of mine did fail the course. He was incapable of operating both the CU595 Tilt and the CU585 with eyes on the Ind 301. A tour later and he was back as a plotter.
They got you in the end.