If I may add my most savoured memories of one particular promotion. I was a young(ish) SAC serving on a small radar station in darkest Suffolk. It was the Stn Cdr's "habit" of occasionally visiting the Naafi on a Thursday night to have a couple of drinks with the junior ranks. One Thursday, he arrives as usual, greets everyone there and then announces "I think Cpl 4mastacker should be bought a few drinks". The following morning and still feeling a bit shabby from the night before, OC Blankets called me into his office and said "You got the news then?". That was, by far, a much better way of being notified of a promotion than receiving the Blue Letter through the post; a method used for my next promotion.