Originally Posted by
Dougie M
The Army Sergeant Major seems to be wearing a staff officers' hat badge on his beret. The army always deified its Sergeant Majors and even in the Sgts' Mess at Benson woe betide anybody of either service who ordered a drink before the RSM arrived in the bar.
On other RAF Stations I've known one or two CMCs like that but not usually the SWO.
If you can be arrsed to search ARRSE there is a similar thread on there about who is the most senior WO in the army.
There is a post very much along those lines, where a visiting WO was ignored by the barman until the RSM/CMC/other WO of a type I can't remember (R/C/other WO) came in. Said R/C/other WO came swanning in shortly afterwards with his gang of sycophants whereupon our visiting WO, who was senior in every conceivable way to the R/C/other WO debriefed him loudly and in a one way fashion as to what he thought of R/C/other WO and his behaviour.
Which brings to mind the Earl of Bandon, but he wasn't a WO...