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Old 22nd Aug 2015, 20:46
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Basil
 
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Now that some of you mention English, I recollect being officer i/c a station club.
We went off on an expedition and a sergeant was keen to write the report. I was sure he'd write a good one and wasn't worried about the spelling and grammar because the SHQ typing pool was excellent at cleaning up all that stuff. Although I was on leave when the report was disseminated my 2i/c the expedition was to sign on my behalf and he'd read it, wouldn't he?

Oh dear! What I didn't know was that the sergeant's technical department had their own typing pool and, because it was technical, typed ad verbatim. The 2i/c clearly signed p/p without reading.

The report went to station, command and, worst of all, to the RN

When I returned from leave I had a 'See me!' from the Station Commander awaiting.

I learnt about monitoring from that.
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