I stand corrected on the GR4s and am happy to admit it. Not that I ever saw them when I was flying in, around and between Basrah and Al-Amarah.
However, my original gentle dig at parts of the RAF seems to have hit a few raw nerves. I stand by my point, as someone who in the last 2 years has spent more nights away from home than in it, that the FJ world is not as busy or as deployed as the Army in general, the SH forces, the AT force....
So this was not a dig at the RAF in general, there is enough of that around this forum at the best of times. I do always laugh on being lectured on jointery by the light blue - for whom joint usually = Air Power.