Your husband will never be promoted if you wear trousers

[chopper2004]

"I was amazed to discover, for example, that the houses on the RAF base were segregated according to rank. Each estate – or ‘patch’, as it is called – was split into areas for airmen, sergeants and officers. And the higher your husband’s rank, the bigger your house. Colonels were furnished with five bedrooms and a gated driveway."

She doesn't know her service ranks, unless in her mind

1) at the time (1997) she was misled by the appearance of more tri service organisations i,e DHFS, JATEU around and assumed an army officer was running around or living on base

2) Might have confused a visiting senior officer from any of the NATO air forces with being an exchange officer albeit a very very senior one and she put 3.5 and 3.5 together as the above and tried for a 4

3) Or the Mail could've misquoted or dont know what the hell they were talking about