This has happened every year for about the last 10 years if I recall correctly. Different levels of publicity given to it depending on level of warfare ongoing - I'm guessing we must be in a 'warfare-holiday' to use the MoD bizspeak! As an aside, loved the comment on the Bastion documentary last night about how the final stages of the drawdown were no longer the 'austerity period' but were re-named the 'expeditionary-period'. Always good to change the name - never mind the underlying issues...