Harmony Guidelines?
'Harmony' is just another thing to hide behind, like Performance Indicators and such like. The simple fact is that we are throwing our SH crews back into the fray after they have had precious little time to rebalance themselves after an operational tour, a short-ish period of Post Operational Tour Leave, all the Squadron detachments, followed by all the tick chasing required to prepare for the operational tour that inevitably follows all too soon after the previous one. Harmony guidelines are only quoted by those who don't deploy and thus have their time to quote such things.
The Telegraph also goes on about the shortage of SH to provide CASEVAC, wheeling out Rick Jolly. We are engaged in 2 theatres of operatons and it would be illuminating to study the utilisation of the SH.
However, the underlying tone is clear, the crews deserve sympathy since they are the ones heading out in harm's way, coming home and having a short period of time to readjust before heading off again, Lord Moran used to talk about courage being like a bank account and the SH guys may not be well paid, but their courage accounts are seeing more activity than when Mrs Compressorstall hits Oxford Street.