Brit55,
So those weren't C17s and C130s that deployed 1ACC in 2003? My mistake! ;-)
What is unlikely is that the AT fleet will want to eat into crew hours by doing a UK hop prior to an OOA move in order to pick up freight at somewhere like Scampton.
The way things are going, we may as well all go and live equidistant between EGDL and Marchwood, though not every destination is by the sea!