... Re deployments, DH reckons they try to send the ppl who put their hand up for it and not the ones who don't.
Thats what my DH says as well. His brother has been trying to get deployed for years (he is in the airforce also) and they won't send him, apparently there are plenty of people willing, so I suppose thats on our side.

And yes, it will get us up to the tropics quicker, but knowing our luck we will end up in Adelaide I love Adelaide, DH is not a fan at all.