I am actually quite interested to see how we fill our time post-HERRICK. Once the rotations through pointless 6- or 9-month deployed staff tours have gone, and the pre/post-deployment cycle for the flying units has become defunct.... then what? Are we going to go back to a kind of 1980s working routine, without the backdrop of the Cold War?
However some "too clever by half" people have 'protected' all of our good deals (including many North America dets) by designating them as pre-deployment (rather than routine) training and funding them from contingency funds (rather than dwindling core funds) - so presumably many of these good deals will disappear once the contigency funds dry up. And I am sure that the flow of fantastic new initiatives from each and every branch of HQ AIR will keep us all buried under a mountain of trivia.
Not sure which way it will go - but happy enough to stick around to see. God knows I'm glad to have a stable income and a decent pension plan!