Boosting morale.....
......OC GST* when I was there was the legendary Sqn Ldr Dave Dattner.
He used to summon the AEO and AEOp students to the main briefing room on the occasional Saturday morning and deliver his standard generalised bollocking thus:
" I'm getting fed up of being phoned by various mothers around the county complaining about their daughters being "compromised" by you lot. DO stop littering the countryside with bastards. Now those to whom that applies know who they are; the rest of you are doing fine. Now bugger off."
Most of the studes who came in contact with him would have followed him over the edge of a cliff. He was that powerful a personality.
The Ancient Mariner
* General Service Training
I'll leave the tales of some of his other eccentricities to others.