Ah well F-S, that's what can happen when an elite training institution goes comprehensive.
That is not to say that alcoholic outbursts weren't totally unknown in the DS in earlier years . Some of a certain vintage might remember a GD Squadron Leader interrupting a Wednesday morning parade with loud music emanating from the windows of his room in the College overlooking the Orange.
The quick dispatch upstairs of a Rock Flight Sergeant from King Rock on the square generated a brief interchange of opinions at the door to said officer's room, this in short order resulting in the miscreant being summarily knocked out cold. All was of course heard by those gathered below.
This prompt palliative action was memorably followed by the remark:
" Do carry on, gentlemen" as the windows were closed.
Anybody remember "High Flight" ?
One of our Flight Commanders on "A" ( Sov's at the time
) confessed to actually being in it. Closer interrogation uncovered that his was one of the pairs of Cadet boots filmed marching up and down in the scene of the initial phase of training.