This story about the UK army makes it sound like something from Blackadder

David J. Chmiel has shared a great clipping from The Telegraph on Twitter:

Harsh but fair

SIR – Major Robert Erith’s memories of the late Major Eric Garbutt remind me of my own training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the late Eighties.

My platoon colour sergeant was an inspirational Coldstream Guardsman called David Gajda. On one particular barrack room inspection, he found a dead fly in my locker. This resulted in two punishment inspections: the first for having a pet, and the second for not feeding it.

Edward Hamilton-Russell
Bulmer, Suffolk

Source: https://twitter.com/LONDJC/status/734669820529102848