The guy in basic banging someone’s wife ... surely he wasn’t one of the new recruits, was he?
My recollection was that he was a corporal, one of the permanent party. All I remember is there was a courts martial going on, one of us asked what it was, and the DI told us.
It could not have been one of us as we’d only been there a couple days, just got our uniform issue. There was just no way any of us could have even met her.
One of the pleasant things about history, is the commander had a wife and we can safely say the wife was a “she”, that is someone born a female and retained that identity. In today’s armed forces one has no idea.