The last few replies regarding the medics, have reminded me. Towards the end of my engineer training at Sleaford Tech, I had recently passed the Applied Engineering course with an A2 grade, when I and my Ford Anglia were attacked by an Aston Martin DBS with (it later emerged) a fractured hydraulic brake pipe.
I was in a coma in a civvy hospital for 3 weeks, came round, was transferred to RAFH Ely (there were some lovely PM nurses in those days) and then to Headley Court for 3 months rehab, what a fantastic outfit it was.
Finally made it back to Cranditz only to be told that the medics had decided that I had to do the whole Applied course again. This time I scored B1. I was pixxed off but, to be fair, in the following 30 years no one ever asked me what grade I had achieved on the applied course!
You're quite right OD they may not have had power but they sure had influence, they held me back by some months.
Rgds SOS
Last edited by SOSL; 13th Apr 2013 at 16:14.