Jumping Jack: you misunderstand me. I don't Disbelieve you. There are still plenty of operational deployments, particularly for rotary. My comment, 'I certainly don't believe that' referred to your first line, 'if you think folks are going away less...'!
My point was that public perception is that deployments are far fewer than during Herrick & Telic and that it was matters in this regard.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong but as BV points out they like to sneak these subtle changes in until folk are used to them before delivering the bombshell, maybe not this year, but........