Fred
Strange that your "bete noir" should also hold the job of C.G.I. It sounds exactly like the same chap. I had been operating for over a year before I was commissioned and I was told by the Adjutant that the Commisioning Board Chairman was very angry at the slow rate of commissioning and had put in a strong word or two to his Superiors saying that all pilots should be commissioned. He was Air Vice Marshall Carr and a very tough character. When we graduated in the States our American fellow trainees could not understand how we put up with such a system and condemned it out of hand. I am pretty sure that it no longer occurs but am not too certain. The distinction between Decorations that was in force has been stopped and that, too , was a disgusting practice. When you look back on it objectively you can only see the hypocrisy behind it all. Reg