whisky-dave wrote:

Strange that considering I was told by someone on here yesyerday that it was run by a charity/charities

Mountain rescue teams, lifeboats etc are run by charities but this
is for the military run SAR you know sea kings/nimrods etc, whose
primary role was retrieval of downed military pilots, civilian SAR was
a (very important) sideshoot to this role.


ASIDE:-
Are the coastgaurd considered as governmental or are they a charity
run thing?