The Army has decreed it necessary that ALL personnel coming back from Afgan are to complete decompression at RAF Akrotiri.
I completely agree that formed units who have been under severe stress for months on patrols, watching comrades die, operating in FOBs and seeing the full horrors of Afgan first hand need to do it.
However, this one seems an "army catchall' and personnel living in relative comfort at Kandahar/Kabul etc, doing office jobs or not on the front line will find themselves often as individuals caught up in a lot of 'venting' at the decompression.
This will also be another two days travel time, add stress and inconvenience to an awful journey home from theatre which already takes 2-3 days.
Yet another thing that we have to put up with just to try and do a job we are ordered to in Afgan.
