'Lamp swinging alert'... When I joined, our QM (t) was a genuinely scary bloke one of those guys who was actually relaxed and pleasant, because nobody dared screw with him.
After a while, when he'd decided I wasn't a total knob, we had a few beers together.
He told me of his experience with bullying he'd joined as a national serviceman, and had been beaten up regularly for a week or so by a big twat who thought it was clever... He finally decided it had to stop, so the next night he waited until about 3 am, and, with an accomplice, snuck up on the guy, armed with a fire bucket and a pick helve (remember them? wink )
The bucket was rammed sharply, firmly, and in a soldierly manner, over the guy's head as he lay in his pit, and then the pick helve was used to play a couple of tunes on the bucket... ) He wasn't bullied again after that. Top bloke.
Reminds me wasn't there a gunner subaltern who was 'psychologically damaged' by having a rose pushed up his backside??