The daft thing here is, and it's a point which most of you supposed clever folk have completely missed, that it's only on base that this outdated class system exists.
As has been mentioned there are squillions of examples of enlisted folk living happily in their own homes alongside everyone from bin man to bank manager.
The most popular place on a Wednesday night at Lyneham was the NAAFI Bop, so much so that a Station Order was written forbidding SNCO and Officers attending. Both said messes had plenty of young folk who wanted nothing more than a few beers, a dance and to socialise with like minded similar aged folk. If they had gone to a bop in Swindon no one would have batted an eyelid but mixing with the enlisted filth was made a crime.
It's time for the dinosaurs to die
