Mr C Hindcap,
What I can't get my head around with the EAWs is they don't deploy as EAWs.
At home there is one EAW OOA there is another. The people manning the OOA EAW may be from a different EAW than the main force one, for instance from Cranwell or Coningsby when the OOA EAW is from Cottesmore? Crazy.
It might work OOA but unless an entire EAW deploys, what is the point?