I couldn't help notice the visit by the Chief of Defence Staff to the R.N. Ship from which the Apaches flew operations over Libya. I might be a tad paranoid, but given the much publicised claims by various pundits over the the last 5 years or so about the need to dismiss the Junior Service, and now we have a situation arise for which they were very much to the fore, could it be objected that this is an attempt, part intentionally, to upstage the R.A.F.'s wee contribution the Libya "No Fly Zone"?
I'd say it was a case of CDS out to visit the troops on the way home and say "well done". Anything more than that is paranoia.
Jeez, even when dishing out back slaps, they're viewed a a recce for future knife strikes. If CDS (or other VSO) hadn't gone to say BZ, the claims would be "Our Boys Get No Thanks From Top Brass".