S-U-L
Aircrew have been deployed on Op Fresco since the very beginning, not just in response to the subsequent need to cover Fresco and Telic simultaneously!
10forcash
Using the logic of your own comment all military personnel should be in work EVERY day when they are not on leave - after all the taxpayer pays them every day!! No weekends, bank holidays, shift pattern down days etc, off. If there is nothing else for them to do perhaps they could dig holes in the ground and then fill them in!!! I don't know if you are in the military, if you are, given your apparent feelings, perhaps you would like to volunteer to go in and work ON EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU HAVE OFF - WITHOUT EXCEPTION. I am sure if your policy was applied across the board we very quickly wouldn't have a military.