101 Sqn in her glorious days of being a pure tanker Sqn was certainly a busy place to be post GW1- shame the Sqn are seemingly losing 2 more frames this summer to the scrap heap - especially with the Tristar AAR capable frames failure rate for towlines/trails during the last 14 months.
I realise that we have less RAF/Navy FJ to support BUT don't forget that the VC10's was deployed to Seeb in 2002 to support the US Navy flying Ops in Afghanistan and not RAF fast jets.