Rant on.
What is the world coming to? Whining about getting a bollocking for not saluting.
I'm starting to wonder why I even bother with the Army when it seems to be chock full of pathetic dripping mummy's boys who can't handle having their shitty standards pulled up - and rightly so. The same thing that makes a soldier salute an officer is exactly the same thing that makes a formed cohesive organisation of fighting men capable of taking the fight to the enemy and winning the day.
I accept that serial bollockings are a tad dull, however - shurely only one swift 'unload' from the Pl Sgt would have sufficed - but to suggest it isn't needed is utterly abhorent to me.
If you don't like it - you guessed it - leave.
Oh, and this isn't a go at Havoc - it's a go at all those people who may feel tempted to post along the lines of 'yeah, saluting is crap, mate - I tell 'em all to fcuk off' nonsense we will shurely get. I now understand why so many (apparently professional) soldiers and ex-soldiers rambled on incessantly on the 'punchy Bootie thread' about how acceptable this sort of behaviour is. I can assure you it isn't, and I feel sorry for anyone who goes into a firefight thinking it is.
Rant off.
PS Havoc - go and get pissed - tomorrow is another day. And I once shared your predilection for receiving bollockings!