Becoming an Officer

I was up for an officer’s, to become an officer, and I think there’s three different phases of it, you know. Before you - three officers here, two or three here and then you go up before group captain. And when the group captain says, “Now, when you have spare time, what do you do? ” And I think I, all my life, I just tell the truth. “Oh, if I had spare time I’d go over to the canteen and meet the guys and have a couple of drinks.” And the report came back that I was immature. And I guess it could have been Les Waterfield - he’s gonna be here - the captain of the crew might have put my name in to become an officer. And he wanted to know what happened. And when I told him that, he said, “You should never have done, you should have told them you read books and you did all kinds of things but not go to the canteen.” But, anyway, that’s funny!Interviewer: You’re too honest.I don’t think I wanted to be an officer, anyway.