if mistakes/breaks from the rules were made they were well intentioned in what the person or persons thought were the best interests of the service.
Would those 'breaks from the rules' include the issue of illegal orders, Tourist? One such order issued by an RAF VSO, to ignore the mandated regulations yet declare them complied with, has been declared proper by the MOD up to and including the SoS ever since, and insists that refusal to comply with it was an offence. That was presumably in the best interests of the Service in your view?