A bit off thread, but thought I might post this here, to show that the pongoes' mindeset still hasn't moved on.
Talking to my son the other night. He's a REME JNCO, and he told me that he was on duty that night, standing by to pick up a load of officers from the nearby town in a service minibus, after they had been on a night out on someone's going away do. Not an official function, but still the army thought it ok to screw up one of their NCOs' evening, not to mention misuse service transport and petrol, rather than spend a few quid each out of their not inconsiderable salaries to pay for taxis or a private hire minibus. It may be significant that he's in a tech unit where a good 50% of the officers are commissioned NCO's.
Can't imagine this happening in the RAF, even 40 years ago when I was in.