On 26/03/2013 17:13, Martin Brown wrote:
On 26/03/2013 16:58, Nightjar wrote:
On 26/03/2013 16:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Nightjar wrote:
HM Coastguard runs the ones around here and AIUI, they will oversee the
new service in much the same way. Personally, in times when the
Services' budget is being cut, I would rather see what money there is
going to equip the troops on the front lines.

It still makes sense to be able to do military search and rescue though.
Domestic SAR work provides very realistic training.

As I understood it, they were paid to provide the service.

The problem is that, if they were to continue to do it, they would need
to replace their ageing fleet of helicopters and SAR helicopters are
fairly specialised bits of kit.

Colin Bignell

So to avoid that short term hardware cost and retaining trained SAR
teams we outsource it and get royally ripped off in the longer term
losing most of our military SAR capability too. How very clever


The money for the equipment has to come from somewhere and, in the
current climate, that somewhere will be things that front line troops
need. The Coastguard and Police seem quite capable of running SAR in my
area.

Colin Bignell