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Promoted to [[air commodore]] on 1 July 1984,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=49800|supp=yes|startpage=9435|date=9 July 1984|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> Graydon became Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters [[No. 11 Group RAF|No. 11 Group]] at [[RAF Bentley Priory]] in January 1985.<ref name=WW/> He went on to be Assistant Chief of Staff at the Policy Division at Headquarters [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe|SHAPE]] in June 1986<ref name=WW/> and was promoted to [[air vice marshal]] on 1 July 1986.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=50583|supp=yes|startpage=8719|date=30 June 1986|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> Promoted to [[air marshal]] on 5 April 1989,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=51696|supp=yes|startpage=4296|date=10 April 1989|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> he was appointed Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at [[RAF Support Command]] that month<ref name=WW/> and appointed [[Order of the Bath|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in the 1989 [[Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=51772|supp=yes|startpage=2|date=16 June 1989|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> Promoted to [[air chief marshal]] on 31 May 1990,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=52548|supp=yes|startpage=8596|date=3 June 1991|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> he became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at [[RAF Strike Command]] serving in that role during the [[Gulf War]] in 1991.<ref name=WW/>
Graydon became [[Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Air Staff]] in November 1992, was appointed [[Air Aide-de-Camp]] on 15 December 1992<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=53135|supp=yes|startpage=21065|date=14 December 1992|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> and advanced to [[Order of the Bath|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] in the 1993 [[New Year Honours]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=53153|supp=yes|startpage=2|date=16 June 1989|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> As Chief of the Air Staff he advised the British Government on the implementation of No Fly Zones in [[Iraq]] and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0113hyj|title=Stephen Nolan|publisher=BBC|date=15 May 2011|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> He was also implemented the [[Front Line First]] initiative launched in July 1994 which contributed to reducing the RAF manpower from around 75,000 to around 53,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980423/debtext/80423-24.htm|title=Parliamentary questions|date=23 April 1998|publisher=Hansard|accessdate=2 June 2012}}</ref> He retired from the Royal Air Force in April 1997.<ref name=WW/>
==Later life==
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