"Cry me a river chaps. Given the deployments expected of the other two services, the dripping here is astonishing.
Max deployments allowed:
RAF - 280 days/24 months
Navy/Royal - 660/36
Army - 415/30
Let us say nothing about the relative hardships and dangers faced, simply look at those numbers and see how easy they have it.
There's nothing soft about the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps... "
However, RAF Akrotiri is a MOB not "just" a deployment. Something You appear to have overlooked, so we would expect a certain standard, after all, the Station has been there for many years.
However, it's interesting that the current RM max deployment seems to be the same as my father's deployment with the West indies Sqn (not just one ship!) in 1937 - a tour interrupted in September 1939.