Biggus
You are quite right that life is different for the 'D' folk. We are not involved at present and most 'D' folk are chomping at the bit to help out and get involved.
It's over 4 years since we withdrew from Telic and we've had a major turnaround in personnel. They do need training but at the same time it needs to be the right sort of trg. It's been a couple of years since the last Flag but we do get some decent exercises and we do see the good side of service life regularly. That is far less of a pain burden than most out there (JFH, SH, AH, AT, TAL) and of course not forgetting the support personnel who do a sound job too!
I for one have the utmost respect for you all
but that doesn't help does it? What would help would be if we could get our little aeroplane somewhere where it could do a job too?
SA