That said Sunfish, plenty of dead-ground counselling still occurs in the regular bns... regardless of rank. This often how senior screamers are corrected by their subordinates.
In the Army the vast majority of incidents end there. The RAAF, however, is largely rear-echelon based and most incidents do not go unpunished.
I don't condone any sort any sort of violence in the cockpit unless it's necessary to prevent the crew from becoming a smoking hole - certainly not for low risk errors in procedure. It's pointless and counter-productive in training.
I have heard stories of an instructor at Camden you uses a rolled up newspaper on ab initio students. While I found him generally brusk (but all bluster really) he never did try the newspaper trick on me. Wouldn't want to either, as he'd lose more than my business.
Last edited by Trojan1981; 5th Jan 2013 at 20:56.