ATM,
See my initial response in the Mil Aircrew section, but lets add a little more. RAF OpsO jobs................Well as you have guessed from this thread they really are overemphasised in their importance. Whilst actually deploed OOA the job is interesting as you see the ultimate product of what you are doing, in my current case AT and primarily AAR at the moment. But we have to remember that the majority of OpsO post are throwbacks from the days when it was a ground tour for aircrew hence the high number on many units when, in reality, you would need one person.
For instance, on my unit we have too many people, to be frank you could nearly do away with the entire Sqn and have it run from the flying sqns if you gave them a couple of more bods. As for ATC i can't really comment, yes its busy, you can go and do area radar at LATCC or SCATCCbut as for going OOA very little opportunity exists unles we go to complete holes like Kabul and / Bagram. Again if you like controlling ac then why not go for it.
Anyway gotta go the mighty beasts have to soar again soon.
