In 1982, during the Falklands war, I was a flt lt in Int at HQSTC. Every morning there was an "inner" ops brief run by AM Bairsto with all the high-priced help, and, as duty briefer, I would start with the int brief and then sit quietly in the corner during the rest of the meeting to answer questions arising and pick up tasks. After a few days, I was taken aside by my gp capt boss and told that as from the next day I was not to brief, but would instead prepare a brief for him to deliver at the meeting. When I asked whether I was being sacked for incompetence, I was told that AM Bairsto had demanded the change as he was finding it very difficult tearing new orifices in his senior staff during the meeting with a junior officer in the room! Very tactful. He was (nearly) always very restrained during all his other int briefs.