Missing the Chance to go Overseas

There weren’t that many WD’s that really got overseas, you know accordingly to numbers. However, once they had five WD’s posted from our station, a sergeant, a corporal, a WD and a couple of AW’s. By rights I should have been one of them but I was a little WD in the dentist chair and the most handsome brute you ever saw on two feet in a flying uniform, and officer, came up to chat with the dentist. They spent an hour out in the hall and the officer wanted to know how he could get his teeth whiter. So (pardon me) when I got out of the dentist and back to the unit these postings had taken place. So I wasn’t very happy. I went into the flying adjutant and told him what I thought and they had already made one change and they wouldn’t make another. So he said, “But we’re going to give you your corporal hooks.” Well I never was a swearing type but I said, “Who in hell wants their corporal hooks? ” It’s a wonder I hadn’t been put on charge but I wasn’t thank goodness! But it was even in my records in the end that they created the space to give me my corporal hooks.