Bassingbourne OCU over the winter of 1961/62. I shared a billet with a flying officer doing the
PR course. I think I have remembered his name and would venture it if someone really wanted to know.
He seemed to have been peculiarly blessed, having either 'O' levels or even possibly no 'O' levels at all. He had blagged a five year commission, which must always have seemed to the P staff to be a bad return on the training costs. On top of that he got a first tour on
PR. And he outranked me.
He had bags of personality for sure. I think he could have expected a permanent commission soon enough, to justify the wild card the system had given him. I believe he spoiled this blessed progression by barging through some power cables in a fiord somewhere, although I do not how he did after that.