Page 155 - Demo
P. 155
153remember the instruction and salute with their left hands, except one poor unfortunate, either too sober or too hungover, who salutes correctly with his right. WO Garbutt spots this error immediately, and begins to march over to him while verbally tearing into him. Behind him Wing Commander Cadets is a bit quicker on the uptake, and suggests he should take another look%u2026 What can he say? The College Warrant Officer is dumbfounded for a moment.Then it%u2019s time to march round and round as usual, which we should have been able to do in our sleep, (several frequently did). But, without warning the Tiger Moth%u2019s back and doing a bombing run: flour bombs appear as if from nowhere, and the parade ground crackled under our feet, because of the Nitrogen Triiodide somebody had sprinkled there. Was that the cause of the purple haze? Attacked from air and ground at the same time. Hope those guys with swords at the front can defend us all. Or did none of this really happen? Had they been experimenting on us? Was there LSD in the after-dinner port, perhaps?How did it finish? We were dismissed with a warning to do it right, next week.Which we did. The end.

