Guest post by ajlr

Rearguard Action

A long time ago, I was one of 76 people (ranging in age from 18 to 32) who started out on a five-month officer cadet training course in the RAF. The object of those in charge of tormenting us over the five months was to see whether we could make it to the end of the course still sane and (possibly) worthy of receiving the Queen's Commission. Two weeks of the course, roughly half-way through, involved capering in energetic and hair-raising fashion round an area of England known as