Quite right too Beags! The same happened to me at RAF Chessington. It was at the time, a tri-service mess. The CMC was an RSM and apparently the same rules were followed. Having had 'the rules' explained to me by the Corporal barman, I too explained that as we were in an RAF mess and that I too was senior to the RSM, if a beer didn't appear on the bar within 30 seconds, there was going to be trouble. The bar shutters were raised and beer swiftly arrived, followed 5 minutes later by the RSM. I simply smiled at him, offered to buy him a beer in 'our RAF Mess' and he just smiled back without uttering a word. Marvellous!
Are you per chance referring to Ken the Wet-man above?
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