After I retired but with my RAFR 1250, I was driving north with wife and mother in law and around lunch time we were nearing Leeming. Lunch I thought.
We swung in, I signed the car in at the guardroom, and thence to the Mess for a splendid lunch. Now that is what it should mean.
Or years before when main gates, even on bomber bases were not manned, former stn cdr, not an honour member, used to drop in to the Mess - one Johnnie Johnson.
If, over night, the rules changed, how many Pprunerati would use their new right? Maybe to use their previous Mess or Club for a year or so while their previous mates were still there, but how many would remain Klingons?