It's perhaps worth recalling that Op Granby was mounted against a background created by the Options for Change announcements of July 1990, with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait occurring about a week later. I stand to be corrected here but, as I recall, by the time the Air War was over, crews of a Laarbruch squadron had to return to the UK as the squadron had already disbanded in RAFG. It was a little odd to be in a HQ simultaneously tasked with supporting deployed forces in action in Granby and the subsequent Watch operations whilst planning a rundown in-Theatre that finally led to the demise of the Command itself.