At BFT in 90/91, one of my team mates was a re-tread FJ Nav who wa stold to move back into the Mess (from his flat in Leeds with a live-in 'chum'). Hre elected to pay for a room in the Mess and continue to live in Leeds!
We were also banned from having beans at lunch - baken beans is not an officers' vegetable!
Duncs